Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization /

"This book is a critical social history of art in colonial and postcolonial Bengal. Sanjukta Sunderason examines continuity and change in artistic practice between these historical periods in order to highlight the porous boundaries of left-wing art and the complex aesthetics and politics of de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunderason, Sanjukta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Colección:South Asia in motion.
Temas:
1900-1999
Art > Political aspects > India > Bengal > History > 20th century.
Art and society > India > Bengal > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism and the arts > India > Bengal.
Art > Aspect politique > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Art et société > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postcolonialisme et arts > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
Art and society.
Art > Political aspects.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
India > Bengal.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations
  • Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations
  • 1. "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism
  • 2. "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India
  • 3. "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group
  • PART II. Postcolonial Displacements
  • 4. "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India
  • 5. "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony
  • Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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