Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles

Midori Yamamura is an Assistant Professor at CUNY Kingsborough.Yu-Chieh Li is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University.

• Part I. Joining the Game: Trauma and Regionalism 1. “The New Chinese Landscape” in the Cold War Era 2. Before and Beyond the Cold War: Visual Accounts of the “Secret War” in Laos (Pha Khamfan’s Collection of Photographs and Terry Wofford’s Paintings of Planes) 3. Affects, Trauma and Experimental Art in New Order Indonesia, 1970-1977 4. Asia’s Cold War and Environmental Devastation: Kidlat Tahimik and Roberto Villanueva’s Neo-Indigenous Response in the Philippines and Beyond 5. Australian Exhibitionary Turns to Asia in the late Cold War Part II. Visual Gallery and Primary Documents 6. From Okinawa with Love 7. Works and Primary Documents 8. Reconfiguring History 9. Voyage into the COLD SEA 10. From Cities into the Mountains and the Fields: An Archaeology of Lives in Dark Ruins Part III. The Continuous Cold War 11. Survival Tactics within Cold War Ideologies: Post-Mao Artists on the Tides of Globalization 12. Performance, Memory and Affect in Yamashiro Chikako’s Mud Man 13. Undoing Cold War Temporality: Transnational Adoption in Agnès Dherbeys’s Omone and Retired

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