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d iˈv a n | A Journal of Accounts offers critical interpretations on contemporary art and culture, and its broader historical, socio-political, and theoretical contexts, from the greater Asia (Middle East, South/Southeast/East Asia and Asia-Pacific) regions which determine historical and current socio-cultural affinities with contemporary Australian art and society.
CONTENTS
Of Roaches and Men: An Urban Pastoral
STEPHANIE BAILEY
The Grey Zone: Censorship Disguised
ERMAN ATA UNCU
The Political Art of Ai
YAO SOUCHOU
From Studio to Street: The Intimate Gaze of Kaveh Golestan
VALI MAHLOUJI
Monuments, (by) Architects, (for) Governments
ALA YOUNIS
An Assertion of Continued Presence
DJON MUNDINE
Aesthetics and Politics in Indonesian Art: And the Interconnection Between the Artwork of FX Harsono and the Mass Killings of 1965–66
MARTIN SURYAJAYA
Future Imperfect: Focus on Visual Culture in the Middle East
ANTHONY DOWNEY
Multitude, Solitude: Khaled Sabsabi’s ‘Crowds’
CHARI LARSSON
Published by DI'VAN ART JOURNAL (Alan Cruickshank) and UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture
Editor: Alan Cruickshank
Design: Alan Cruickshank
ISSN 2207-1563
© Copyright 2016 Alan Cruickshank in conjunction with UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, Sydney, the authors, and artists.

Image: Kaveh Golestan, 'Untitled' from the 'Az Div o Dad Polaroid' series 1975–77. Courtesy: the Kaveh Golestan Estate