Preliminaries -- CONTENTS -- Art and Social Change -- Geopolitical Changes in Asia and the Pacific -- Art in a Globalised State -- The Spectre of Being Human -- Tracing the Image Contemporary art in Pakistan -- Contemporary Art in Sri Lanka -- Indonesia Art freedom human rights and engagement -- Art and Politics in Indonesia -- Different Visions Contemporary Malaysian art and -- Brief Survey of Philippine Art -- Singapore A case study -- Developments in Contemporary Thai Art -- The Extended Matrix New dimensions in Thai printmaking -- Vietnamese Fine Art Finds Itself in Respect of Aesthetics -- Taiwan A location of construction and synthesis -- The Enigma of Japanese Contemporary Art -- Korean Contemporary Art Opens Towards -- AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC Art in Movement Across the Pacific -- Australian Art Examining its past re imagining its future -- The Politics of Visibility How Indigenous Australian art -- He Kahui Whetu Hou -- Distinctive Voices Artist initiated spaces and projects -- Krishna's Dilemma: Art Museums in Human Development -- Author Biographies -- Further reading -- Credits.