LONDON.- The first comprehensive book to cover the Asian and Islamic contemporary art scene featuring more than 85 interviews and 250 color illustrations, published by Skira.

Over the past twenty years, no other part of the world has undergone as many changes as the Asian and Islamic regions. Since 1997, the London-based Asian Art Newspaper has been covering on a monthly basis the world of Asian and Islamic art. Each issue has featured an interview with a contemporary artist, providing the reader with the opportunity to discover an artist through his own words and not through the lens of a curator, an art historian or a dealer.

The featured illustrations allow the reader to have a clear understanding of what the artist’s practice and vision are whether dealing with painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, video, film or music. Contemporary Voices compiles some of these interviews, covering the Asian and Islamic contemporary art scene, including internationally acclaimed as well as emerging artists.

For over two decades now, the London-based Asian Art Newspaper has been covering the varied and evolving world of Asian and Islamic art. Published monthly since 1997, each issue features a one-to-one interview with a chosen contemporary artist, enabling the reader to discover these artists through their own words, rather than through the lens of a curator, art historian, or dealer.

Following a question-and-answer format, the interviews are presented as an informal conversation with the artists in question, offering a series of personal exchanges that will appeal both to those already familiar with the artists’ works, and to anyone discovering them for the first time. The featured illustrations allow the reader to form a clearer understanding of the main focus of each artist’s practice and vision, whether it be painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, video, film, or music.

This new volume entitled Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds presents a selection of the art journal’s interviews, and is the first such book to cover the Asian and Islamic contemporary art scene, comprising both internationally acclaimed artists as well as emerging voices. During the past twenty years, few other parts of the world have undergone as many changes as the Asian and Islamic regions: with its exclusive focus on artists from these areas, this book provides an extraordinary close-up and intimate view of these developments from the dynamic perspective of artistic expression and creativity.

Olivia Sand is an Asian Art Newspaper writer.