Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization / Sanjukta Sunderason.
Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization / Sanjukta Sunderason.
Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization / Sanjukta Sunderason.
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/3356
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English
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xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part 1. Dialogues and dissonances: “Political potentiality” : Jamini Roy and the formations of progressive art criticism -- “As agitator and organizer” : Socialist realism and artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India -- “Concrete contextuality” : realism and its discontents in the art of the Ca...
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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California
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[2020]
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Partisan Aesthetics' explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the after...
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Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization / Sanjukta Sunderason.
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South Asia in motion
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
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G 2020/3356
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74VKamV7ABdM
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1503612996
9781503611948 (cloth)
1503611949
9781503612990 (paperback)
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701.03
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991024334216202626
