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2000, Reflections on the Arts in India by Pratapaditya Pal Pdf
The arts reflect a society's deeply held values and aesthetic sensibilities. It is therefore necessary to periodically review the arts as an indicator of the broader developments in society and discern the direction in which they are heading. To greet the arrival of 2001, this volume invited more than a dozen scholars and intellectuals -- each as expert in his or her field -- to assess the current state of the world of art in India. The topics selected provide a wide range of issues and trends, problems and perspectives.
Author : Rebecca M. Brown Publisher : Duke University Press Page : 222 pages File Size : 45,5 Mb Release : 2009-03-17 Category : Art ISBN : 9780822392262
Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 by Rebecca M. Brown Pdf
Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted India’s precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism’s pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West’s dismissal of non-Western places and cultures as sources of primitivist imagery but not of modernist artworks. In Art for a Modern India, Rebecca M. Brown explores the emergence of a self-conscious Indian modernism—in painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, film, and photography—in the years between independence and 1980, by which time the Indian art scene had changed significantly and postcolonial discourse had begun to complicate mid-century ideas of nationalism. Through close analyses of specific objects of art and design, Brown describes how Indian artists engaged with questions of authenticity, iconicity, narrative, urbanization, and science and technology. She explains how the filmmaker Satyajit Ray presented the rural Indian village as a socially complex space rather than as the idealized site of “authentic India” in his acclaimed Apu Trilogy, how the painter Bhupen Khakhar reworked Indian folk idioms and borrowed iconic images from calendar prints in his paintings of urban dwellers, and how Indian architects developed a revivalist style of bold architectural gestures anchored in India’s past as they planned the Ashok Hotel and the Vigyan Bhavan Conference Center, both in New Delhi. Discussing these and other works of art and design, Brown chronicles the mid-twentieth-century trajectory of India’s modern visual culture.
ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index by Anonim Pdf
Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.
In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. In response to the liberalization of India’s economy, art was cultivated by a booming market as well as by new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots and transnational connections. The result was an unprecedented efflorescence of contemporary art and growth of a network of institutions radiating out from India. Among the first studies of contemporary South Asian art, Infrastructure and Form engages with sixteen of India’s leading contemporary artists and art collectives to examine what made this development possible. Karin Zitzewitz articulates the connections among formal trajectories of medium and material, curatorial frames and networks of circulation, and the changing conditions of everyday life after economic liberalization. By untangling the complex interactions of infrastructure and form, the book offers a discussion of the barriers and conduits that continue to shape global contemporary art and its relationship to capital more broadly.
How To Do Politics With Art by Violaine Roussel,Anurima Banerji Pdf
A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a question of aesthetics—whether politics necessarily pollutes and debases the quality of the arts. From the perspective of social science, it has been primarily a question of meaning—how political messages are conveyed through artistic media. Recent work has begun to broaden the study of the arts and politics beyond semiosis and content focus. Several strands of scholarship are converging around the general issue of the social relationships within which art takes political form, that is, how art and artists do politics. This perspective of "doing" moves analysis beyond addressing the meaning of culture, to focus on the ways that art is embedded in—and intervenes in—social relationships, activities, and institutions. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from France and the United States to investigate these directions and themes by exploring the question of "how to do politics with art" from a comparative standpoint, putting sociological approaches in conversation with other disciplinary prisms. It will be of interest to scholars of social movements and politicization, the sociology of art, art history, and aesthetics.
ICoRD'13 by Amaresh Chakrabarti,Raghu V. Prakash Pdf
This book showcases over 100 cutting-edge research papers from the 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’13) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from over 20 countries, on the design process, methods and tools, for supporting global product development (GPD). The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the GPD process, and the host of methods and tools at the cutting edge of all major areas of design research for its support. The main benefit of this book for researchers in engineering design and GPD are access to the latest quality research in this area; for practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of methods and tools that can be taught and practiced.
Theatres of Independence by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker Pdf
Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.
New Subjects and New Governance in India by Ranabir Samaddar,Suhit K. Sen Pdf
This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process — one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgation of the Indian Constitution in 1950, this volume explores the second transition towards developmental democracy, examining the interrelations between globalisation, development and structures of governance. The volume suggests that while there is need to reflect on the governance of transition, it is important to question how democracy negotiates this transition.
Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins by Sirshendu Majumdar Pdf
This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins. Through these letters, the volume explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, and education in India; aspects of Irish Orientalism; Irish literary revival; theosophy, eastern knowledge, and spiritualism; cross-cultural dialogue and friendship; Renaissance in India; anti-imperialism; nationalism; internationalism; and cosmopolitanism. The book reveals a hitherto unexplored facet concerning two leading thinkers in the history of ideas in a transnational context. With its lucid style, extensive annotations and a comprehensive Introduction, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Bengali literature, comparative literature, South Asian studies, Tagore studies, modern Indian history, philosophy, cultural studies, education, political studies, postcolonial studies, India studies, Irish history, and Irish literature. It will also interest general readers and the Bengali diaspora.
Author : Brian A. Dursum,Lowe Art Museum Publisher : Unknown Page : 162 pages File Size : 52,5 Mb Release : 2004 Category : Art ISBN : UOM:39015061013762
Change and Continuity by Brian A. Dursum,Lowe Art Museum Pdf
"This exhibition catalogue divides the countries and essays into three areas: South India; Northwest India; Northeast India. Over 300 illustrations make this a monumental reference. Contributions by Sasha Altaf, Roy Craven, Leo Figiel, Aaron Freedman, Katherine Hacker, Corneilia Mallebrein and Ruth Rosenwasser. 156 pgs.; 356 items in this exhibition." --Amazon.
Author : Karel R. Van Kooij Publisher : Routledge Page : 834 pages File Size : 53,8 Mb Release : 1998-01-12 Category : Art, South Asian ISBN : UCSC:32106020097835
ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index by Ellen M. Raven,Helga I. Lasschuijt Pdf
Supplies annotated and indexed entries on publications in Asian and European languages relating to prehistory, historical archaeology, art history (including modern art), material culture, epigraphy, paleography, numismatics and sigillography.
Body City by Indira Chandrasekhar,Peter C. Seel Pdf
Contemporary India may be said to be in the throes of a transitionality that defines itself in terms of a challenge to earlier paradigms of nationhood and developmentalism. Rapid political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have taken place over the last two decades impelled by a world order that has seen the collapse of socialism and, attendant upon it, a reversal of the decolonization process and a globalizing neo-imperialism have set in motion new ways of looking at the past and positioning the present. In the sphere of culture and the arts, these new reflections manifest themselves as a series of questions: about how to rediscover domestic/indigenous spaces without dis-engaging from the world system or rejecting internationalism; about the assimilative inclusiveness yet alienating exclusion that accompanies changing contours of identity formation; about the tension between the private and the public in the artist s dual role as practitioner and citizen; about creative strategies/reinventions that simultaneously negotiate older cognitive frames and seek to transform these into fresh certitudes. The questions surface in various modes: some-times reflectively, sometimes oppositionally, sometimes in deflected stances, but always with a sense of responsibility and as sited interrogations, conscious of where they come from. These are the questions that underline the conceptual grid of this book.The book is divided into three main sections exposition body.city , frames , body.city figures that lead into each other but not sequentially, relying instead on the inter-connectivity of their textual and visual thematic concerns. The opening section is a set of four essays that explore the specific themes of the body and the city as these translate into modes of representation, performativity and placement. Jyotindra Jain, in Morphing Identities: Reconfiguring the Divine and the Political , discusses the role played by an eclectic range of popular imagery in constructing cultural, social and national identities. In subTerrain: artists dig the contemporary , Geeta Kapur extends the pun in her title to a reasoned-out proposition for locating the subversion of art practice in the interstices of urban spaces, to be excavated through the force of interpretation. Ravi Vasudevan, in Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema, 1974 2003 , explores the body space articulations of screen personas and city environments in the narrative space of today s cinema. In Actors Prepare , Anuradha Kapur s focus is the actor s body, the body in performance. She discusses performance styles in terms of how actors move between the abstract and the tangible and enter into a contract with their audiences by using different modes and by locating the body in different registers. The images reproduced in the book constitute a parallel visual narrative that reinforces the central themes. Interspersed with the text in the first two sections and coming together in the third section, these have a representational value of their own in the scheme of the book. The second section, frames , sets up a vantage point from which to view contemporary cultural practice and provides points of theoretical departure. These include: the notion of civil society in the third world (Sudipta Kaviraj); unfolding forms of collaboration and resistance in the new Indian metropolis (Partha Chatterjee); the shift away from secular, inclusive nationalisms to anti-modern, patriarchal particularisms that parade as nationalism (Pradip Kumar Datta, Kumkum Sangari); the re-imaging of the nation s geo-body through popular cartographic endeavours; and a look at identity formation through an exploration of literary texts (Susie Tharu, Amitav Ghosh).Indira Chandrasekhar is Managing Editor of Tulika Books, New Delhi.Peter C. Seel is Deputy Director of the House of World Cultures, Berlin.The editors of the volume make it clear that the project . . . is a deliberate attempt at distancing the act of enquiry itself from any easy, misleading glibness. It firmly and deliberately locates the critiques it produces within select urban centres . . . that happen to reflect the myriad relations between globalization, local traditions and newly designed living spaces in a particular way, consciously choosing the interface where the social and political conflicts that are central concerns in the artists works are at their most virulent .The Arts News Magazine of India
