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This latest addition to the Awesome Art series aims to make art accessible to the young and young at heart.

The Artist Speaks series presents an intimate look at artists through their words and workings, tracing the ideas, influences and experiences-as told by artists themselves-that underlie their aesthetics.

This sixth title in the Awesome Art series makes art accessible to the young and young at heart, inspiring hours of creativity at home or in the classroom.

Liu Kang, one of Singapore's first generation artists, was a seminal observer, commentator, and visionary of modernity in Singapore art history. In this monograph, the cross-cultural richness in Liu Kang's way of seeing and art making are explored in four essays by curators and art researchers.

Dive into the wonderful world of Malaysian art! Get to know 10 of Malaysia's most awesome artists through fascinating facts about their lives and beautiful full-colour reproductions of their works. With bold, playful illustrations, Awesome Art Malaysia provides readers with an understanding not just of art and how it is created, but what influences it, from nature to culture. This book teems with fun and engaging activities that inspire hours of creativity at home or in the classroom. Awesome Art Malaysia is another title in the Awesome Art series, which seeks to make art accessible to the young and young at heart.

Come discover art from the lion city in Awesome Art Singapore! This volume encourages children to appreciate art by revealing works by 10 artists which cover sculpture, photography and painting. Fully illustrated with stories and fun facts about each artwork, Awesome Art Singapore helps makes art concepts and ideas easy to enjoy and understand. Filled with activities exploring mediums, methods and motivations, this book teems with fun and engaging activities that inspire hours of creativity at home or in the classroom.

Minimalism: Space, Light and Object is an expansive global survey of the movementΓÇÖs influential language of reductive forms, from its Abstract Expressionist colour field antecedents to Post-Minimalism, and how it continues to speak to artists today. In this timely re-evaluation, the contemporaneous Mono-ha movement, as well as experimentation in video, sound and performance are brought to bear on the Minimalist canon. This richly illustrated exhibition catalogue features essays by the exhibition curators and international contributors, along with conversations with artists, opening up a forum for contemporary readings of this dynamic, multivalent and pivotal movement.

Who spoke of the modern in Southeast Asia? When and where was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection brings together nearly 300 texts that were originally published between the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. The texts were produced chiefly in various locations in the region, by artists, critics, historians and curators in 13 languages, many of which had never before been translated into the English language. Years in the making, this publication is the first to present such breadth and depth of art writing in the region of Southeast Asia, and will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, scholars and those interested in Southeast Asian studies and art history.

Modern Art of Southeast Asia: Introductions from A to Z features 60 concise and accessibly written accounts of the key ideas and currents underlying modern art in the region.

Ten essays by emerging scholars draw upon unexplored archives and works of art, bearing witness to rich local histories and uncovering complex artistic exchanges across Southeast Asia and beyond.

Other artists featured in this Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series include Danh Vo (page 22) and Charles Lim (forthcoming).

National heroes and enigmatic gures, 19th-century painters Raden Saleh and Juan Luna traversed the colonial territories of Southeast Asia and the imperial cities of Europe.

One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: theirapplication of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision.

What is a docent? What does an artwork conservator do? Take a look behind the scenes to discover what goes on inside an art museum.

Explore the awesome world of art through 20 awesome works from Southeast Asia!

Inspired by artworks from Singapore's National Collection, this fun activity book encourages young, curious minds to observe and explore the world around them.

This volume assembles essays by 25 emerging and established scholars, who have turned their minds to the art and the writing of it in Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present.

Accompanying the first major survey of Yayoi Kusama's work in Southeast Asia, this catalogue features essays by curators from National Gallery Singapore and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, a biographical timeline and beautifully reproduced images of her works.

Cheng Chong Swee's writings- collated here and translated into English for the first time- range from the value of art education to the responsibilities of the art community, and are imbued with ardour and vigorous clarity.

The stunning breadth of one of the most extensive private collections of ink art in Singapore is made public in Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection.

This catalogue bears witness to Chen Chong Swee's explorations across the mediums of ink and oil, the influence his immediate surroundings had on his art, and his insistence, above all, that it was impossible to divorce art from life.

The exhibition A Fact Has No Appearance explores the impact of new ideas on art in Southeast Asia during the 1970s through the case studies of three artists: Johnny Manahan, Redza Piyadasa, and Tan Teng-Kee.