The contemporary turn in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1989-2002 : Vu Dan Tan, Nguyen Van Cuong, Salon Natasha, and doi moi-in-art

• Main Author: Lenzi, Iola Gllian Louise
• Other Authors: Sujatha Arundathi Meegama
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::General::History; Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144954
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation argues that between 1989 and 2002, in the early years of doi moi economic renovation enacted in 1986 in Vietnam, the Hanoi art scene saw radical transformation as modern art became contemporary. Shift was spearheaded, it proposes, by an academically overlooked Hanoi vanguard, in pa...