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Taiwan and the Philippines, two places that are geographically close but seemingly unrelated, have actually had artistic exchanges for a long time; from the Xiamen Art School in the 1920s and 1930s to religious totems, we can see In addition to the traces of exchanges between the two places, the trend of abstract painting in Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s was even more closely related to the development of local art in the Philippines, with frequent exchanges of visits and exhibitions by artists or groups. This book starts from the perspective of the South Pacific Islands, looking at the historical background of Taiwan and the Philippines, which also experienced the colonial system, and the artistic sparks stirred up by the geopolitics of maritime culture, from the methods of art history, anthropology, linguistics, etc. , looking at the mutual reference and resonance of contemporary art exchanges between the two places; this book is written by Patrick. D. Flores, a professor at the Department of Art at the National University of the Philippines and a well-known international curator, and a Taiwanese art history scholar It was co-curated by Chiang Po-shin and written by a research team. It has certain reference significance for art history and contemporary art curation that are moving towards a maritime historical perspective under globalization.

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