Table of Contents

Preamble Donald Rubin Preface Sara J. Pasti Introduction Tom Finkelpearl Anonymous Rachel Perera Weingeist What If? Pitfalls of Identity in a Slippery Age David Elliott Beyond Icons and Iconography Speculations on the Origins of Nontraditional Art in Tibet Jamyang Norbu Tradition and the Modern World Penba Wangdu Some Thoughts on Why I Make the Kind of Artwork I Make Tenzing Rigdol Bodhi in the Mirror Tsherin Sherpa Video Open Call Rachel Perera Weingeist Acknowledgments Artist Biographies Bibliography

About the Author

David Elliott, an independent curator of contemporary art, has been the director at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Istanbul Modern in Turkey. Jamyang Norbu is a writer and activist based in Nashville.