| A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art Contributor(s): Mathur, Saloni (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478001860 ISBN-13: 9781478001867 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $97.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - General - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 709.540 |
| LCCN: 2019006362 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" (1.25 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |