Nora A. Taylor
Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art
Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism
> brief biographical information
> curriculum vitae
> contact: ntaylo1@saic.edu
books and exhibition catalogues
Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art
(University of Hawaii Press, 2004)
Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam
traveling exhibition of works by ten contemporary Vietnamese artists
9 venues between January 2007 and March 2009; exh. cat. published in 2007 by International Arts and Artists
(co-edited with Gisèle Bousquet) Le Viêt Nam au féminin.
Viêt Nam: Women's Realities (Paris: les Indes savantes, 2004)
(ed.) Studies in Southeast Asian Art: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. O'Connor (Cornell University Press, 2000)
recent articles and curatorial projects
> "Vietnamese Anti-Art and Anti-Vietnamese artists: experimental performance culture in Hà Nội’s alternative exhibition spaces," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2.2 (Summer 2007): 108-28 [.pdf]
> "Why Have There Been No Great Vietnamese Artists?" Michigan Quarterly Review 44.1 (Winter 2005): 149-65 [.pdf]
> "Writing Contemporary Southeast Asian Art History," in A. Reid, ed., Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives (Tempe: PSAS Monograph Series, 2003), 179-92
> "National Colors: Minorities in Vietnamese Nationalist Art," in S. Niessen, et al., eds., Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalisation of the Asian Dress (New York: Berg, 2003), 159-84
> "Raindrops on Red Flags: Tran Trong Vu and the Roots of Vietnamese Painting Abroad," in J. Winston and L. Ollier, eds., Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue (St Martin's Press, 2001), 112-25
> "Framing the National Spirit: Viewing and Reviewing Painting Under the Revolution," in H. Ho Tai, ed., The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (University of California Press, 2001), 109-34
