Chua Mia Tee
Subtitle: directing the real = Cai Mingzhi : ying zhen
By: editors, Clarissa Chikiamco, Lim Shujuan and Seng Yu Jin
Contributors: Chikiamco, Clarissa, 1983- editor; Lim, Shujuan, 1983- editor; Seng, Yu Jin, editor; National Gallery Singapore
Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789811806223
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions; Painting; Singaporean Painting; Singaporean Art; Peinture; Peinture singapourienne; Art singapourien
Other titles: Cai Mingzhi : ying zhen
Notes: Published in conjunction with Chua Mia Tee : directing the real, an exhibition organised by National Gallery Singapore, 26 November 2021-20 November 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English with parallel text in Chinese.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Eugene Tan; title: Persistence of Vision: Chua Mia Tee Directs the Real / Clarissa Chikiamco and Lim Shujuan; title: Plates and Artist's Writings. Point of View: A Search for the Real. Fighting Pornographic Culture with Art; The Crow Learns to Draw (An Allegory); On a Few Issues about Inclinations in Artmaking; On the Issue of Artistic Technique and Skill; The Foot Artist (An Allegory); title: Characters: In Focus and in Action. On the Techniques of Painting Portraits; Portraits and Figure Paintings; An Exhibition of Small Artworks; title: Setting: Vanishing World, Growing Nation. Theme and Subject; On the Artistic Creation of a Painting: Written ahead of the Launch of "Exhibition of Singapore-Style Paintings"; On the Significance of Landscape Paintings; title: Interview with Chua Mia Tee; title: Timeline; title: Acknowledgements; title: Credits.