Sanjukta Sunderason

Partisan Aesthetics

Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization

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Produktbeschreibung

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India's long decolonization.

Produktdetails

• South Asia in Motion
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781503612990
• ISBN-10: 1503612996
• Artikelnr.: 57639899

Autorenporträt

Sanjukta Sunderason is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization
Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations
Chapter 1: "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of
Progressive Art Criticism
Chapter 2: "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres
of the Communist Party of India
Chapter 3: "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art
of the Calcutta Group
Chapter 4: "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of
Socialist Art in Nehruvian India
Chapter 5: "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of
Displacement in the Post-colony