A Fragile Inheritance

Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art

Saloni Mathur (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0301-4 (ISBN)

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In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

Saloni Mathur is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, author of India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display, and coeditor of No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia.

Preface vii
Introduction: Radical Stakes 1
1. Earthly Ecologies 40
2. The Edifice Complex 72
3. The World, the Art, and the Critic 96
4. Urban Economies 129
Epilogue: Late Styles 160
Notes 185
Bibliography 211
Index 225

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	64 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-0301-4 / 1478003014
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0301-4 / 9781478003014
Zustand	Neuware