Worldly affiliations : artistic practice, national identity, and modernism in India, 1930-1990

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Auteur principal: Khullar, Sonal, 1978-
Support: Livre
Langue: Anglais
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015].
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Résumé: "The purpose of art, the Paris-trained artist Amrita Sher-Gil wrote in 1936, is to "create the forms of the future by draw[ing] its inspiration from the present. Through art, new worlds can be imagined into existence as artists cultivate forms of belonging and networks of association that oppose colonialist and nationalist norms. Drawing on Edward Said s notion of affiliation as a critical and cultural imperative against empire and nation-state, Worldly Affiliations traces the emergence of a national art world in twentieth-century India and emphasizes its cosmopolitan ambitions and orientations. Sonal Khullar focuses on four major Indian artists Sher-Gil, Maqbool Fida Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, and Bhupen Khakhar situating their careers within national and global histories of modernism and modernity. Through a close analysis of original artwork, archival materials, artists writing, and period criticism, Khullar provides a vivid historical account of the state and stakes of artistic practice in India from the late colonial through postcolonial periods. She discusses the shifting terms of Indian artists engagement with the West an urgent yet fraught project in the wake of British colonialism and to a lesser extent with African and Latin American cultural movements such as Négritude and Mexican muralism. Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book links artistic developments in India to newly emerging histories of modern art in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Drawing on original research in the twenty-first-century art world, Khullar shows the persistence of modernism in contemporary art from India and compares its function to Walter Benjamin s ruin. In the work of contemporary artists from India, modernism is the ground from which to imagine futures. This richly illustrated study juxtaposes little-known, rarely seen, or previously unpublished works of modern and contemporary art with historical works, popular or mass-reproduced images, and documentary photographs. Its innovative art program renders newly visible the aesthetic and political achievements of Indian modernism." (site Internet de l'éditeur)
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260 |a Oakland, California :  |b University of California Press,  |c [2015]. 
300 |a 1 vol. (XIII-352 p.) :  |b ill. en noir et en coul., carte, jaquette ill. en coul. ;  |c 27 cm. 
500 |a Copyright : The regents of the University of California 
504 |a Notes bibliogr. p. 237-298. Bibliogr. p. 299-319. Index 
505 0 |a Affiliation, worldliness, and modernism in India -- An art of the soil : Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) -- Man and Mahabharata : Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011) -- The new primitives : K. G. Subramanyan (1924-) -- Paan shop for people : Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) -- Globalization, the new-media nineties, and the persistence of modernism 
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