Excavating narratives: an open database of an illustrated oeuvre from Myanmar (Burma)

• Main Authors: Ker, Yin, Sum,, Hedren Wai Yuan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::General; Bagyi Aung Soe; Burmese Art; Data Visualisation; Generous Interfaces; Digital Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155751; https://iassistdata.org/conferences/archive/2018-montreal/
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

What narratives might illustration as a medium and body of works carry, in addition to those divulged by individual illustrations? In Myanmar (Burma), as in many third-world economies, illustration was the principal site of avant-garde artistic experimentation in a heavily censored society into whic...