WORDS ON ART: AYATANA GOH BENG KWAN

WORDS ON ART: AYATANA GOH BENG KWANEdwin Thumboo, one of Singapore's pioneering literary voices, brings his incisive awareness of socio cultural history to this volume of poetry. With a humanist's eye, _arrative spanning the domestic, the politic and the mythic form intertextual responses to the works of art hanging on the walls of the National Gallery Singapore. This volume is the second title in the Gallery's Words on Art series: books dedicated to examining the intersections between

Finalist for best middle-grade/young adult title at the 2020 Singapore Book AwardsCome discover art from the lion city in Awesome Art Singapore

bearing witness to rich local histories and uncovering complex artistic exchanges across Southeast Asia and beyond

he studied Chinese ink painting with Chen Wen Hsi

paperback40 colour and 2 b/w illustrationsISBN: 978-981-09-8433-5

including never-before-published images

revealing the links between architecture

This publication seeks to address this gap

This pair of bed hangings is ornately designed with floral and phoenix motifs in embroidery and beadwork

Material: Natural Bamboo

Beautifully reproduced in full colour

Collection of Singapore Art Museum

and silk between China