Cathrine Bublatzky

Along the Indian Highway

An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012. It analyses art exhibition as a mobile 'object' and promotes the idea of art as a transcultural product.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780367785048
• ISBN-10: 0367785048
• Artikelnr.: 61211287

Autorenporträt

Cathrine Bublatzky is a visual and media anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany. As a trained photographer she received her Magister in Anthropology with a focus on South Asian History and Visual Anthropology in 2008. In her research and teaching, she investigates contemporary visual practices in the field of art and photography, with a main interest in migration and diasporic studies, citizenship, and urban contexts in South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Plates. Acknowledgments. Preface by Monica Juneja
1. Along the Indian Highway: An Introduction 2. "Cancel That Flight to
Delhi...": Serpentine Gallery, London 2008 3. "Indianness and the Urgency
of Transmission...": Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo 2009 4. "There Might be
an Indian Background, But the Theme is Global": HEART Museum of
Contemporary Art, Herning 2010 5. Transcultural Dissonances in the
Contemporary Art World: Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
2012 6. Indian Highway VI Finally on Its Way to China: Ullens Centre for
Contemporary Art, Beijing 2012 7. Shared Exoticisms or the Limits of the
National Exhibition: Some Final Observations