Publication: Dressing the Baba | Recent Donations of Portraits
Contents
Foreword | Ahmad Mashadi
Preliminary Frames: Fashion, Gender, Class and Modernity in NUS Museum's Straits Chinese Portraits Collection | Foo Su Ling
Dressing the Baba: Recent Donations of Portraits presents a selection from
NUS Museum's Straits Chinese collection and foregrounds an exhibition to be
held at the Museum in the latter half of 2013. The portraits are gifts from
several donors; some pieces coming from the donors’ respective family collections
while others were acquired and collected over a period of time. The works range
in stylistic approaches and formal qualities. They are collected as examples of
early practices in art making, in particular when photographic and artist
studios were emerging in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The collection also forms part of the growing category of Straits
Chinese material culture and is indicative of the economies of art patronage
and cultural projections.
Exhibition and publication supported by Ms Agnes Tan in memory of her father the late Tun Tan Cheng Lock
To order our publications, please write to museum@nus.edu.sg
Exhibition and publication supported by Ms Agnes Tan in memory of her father the late Tun Tan Cheng Lock
To order our publications, please write to museum@nus.edu.sg
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