Asian Art Resource Room

This chronology lists important developments of modern and contemporary art along with political, social, and cultural incidents which influenced the development of art in Asian regions.
As for incidents in Japanese art, we list only those relevant to international relations to other Asian regions and exchanges with other Asian artists.

The numbers in ”Importance” field stands for as follows:
1: Incidents relevant to Pan-Asian art development
2: Those particularly important in local art scenes
3: Other notable incidents in art
4: Political, social, and cultural incidents which directly affect art activities
5: General political, social, and cultural incidents other than 2.

Group names are in capitals; book/artwork titles are in italics.

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