MALAYSIAN ART SINCE THE 1990S POSTMODERN SITUATION

This book investigates the meaning of Malaysian modern and postmodern art through the understanding of social and political conditions that shape the emerging of the middle class to which Malaysian artists belong by exploring Malaysian artist’s preoccupation has shifted from Malay/Islamic-centric artistic tendencies to a more postmodern outlook. Malaysian art that is presumed to be postmodern can either be one that evokes a conscious racial or religious identity, art that manifests or highlights the class interest, or art that loses its locality and inheres a sense of cosmopolitanism as its artistic themes and subject matter crosses national borders.