Description

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Eighty paintings and reflections inspired by Myanmar’s political transition offer rare insights into a society struggling to reform.  In Painting Myanmar’s Transition, Ian Holliday and Aung Kaung Myat showcase work produced by eighty artists during a time of change. At the start of the 2010s, Myanmar embarked on a transition away from half a century of rigid military rule. A decade later, the country remains caught in a struggle for power.
 
To help bridge the divide between insider and outsider perspectives on the politics of Myanmar, this book reproduces paintings and interviews by local artists. Placed alongside each other, the eighty paintings and reflections offer rare insights into a society that for a decade had experienced a democratic interlude. Together, they conjure a set of nuanced understandings of an important Southeast Asian state navigating complex political change.

About the Author

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Ian Holliday is vice president of the University of Hong Kong. His books include Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar, Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar, and The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar.

Aung Kaung Myat is a research postgraduate student in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.

Praise For…

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"Thinking through Painting Myanmar’s Transition is a step towards making fuller sense of the fragmented field and country."
— South East Asia Research