Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 281 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in electronic format
ISBN:
178453109X
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1786722704
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9781350985391
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9781784531096
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9781786722706
Series Statement:
International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
Content:
Introduction: tearing apart the storm of progress -- Fugitive lines of desire: Nasreen Mohamedi 1947-77 -- Beyond or in emergency? The emergence of photography during the 1943 Bengal famine: Sunil Janah -- Laughing in the shadow of Swadeshi: Gaganendranath Tagore 1905-21.
Content:
This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Emilia Terracciano traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India; she explores catastrophic turning points in the history of twentieth-century India, via the art works which emerged from them. Art and Emergency reveals how the suspended, diagonal, fugitive lines of Nasreen Mohamedi's abstract compositions echo Partition's traumatic legacy; how the theatrical choreographies of Sunil Janah's photographs document desperate famine; and how Gaganendranath Tagore's lithographs respond to the wake of massacre. Making an innovative, important intervention into current debates on visual culture in South Asia, this book also furthers our understanding of the history of modernism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index
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Also available in electronic format.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786722706
Additional Edition:
Electronic version Terracciano, Emilia Art and emergency London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018 ISBN 9781786722706
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350985391
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