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The Necessity of Art
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Arthur Clutton-Brock, Percy Dearmer, Arthur Duncan-Jones
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This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art
and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal
narrative of the author's journey through his understanding of the
faith. It begins with an introductory exploration of how the basic
and universal image of Mecca and Medina may have been imported into
Indian popular print culture and what variants it resulted in here.
Besides providing a historical context of the pre-print culture of
popular Muslim visuality, the book also explores the impact the
1947 Partition of India may have made on the calendar art in South
Asia. A significant portion of the book focuses on the contemporary
prints of different localised images found in India and what role
these play in the users' lives, especially in the augmentation of
their popular faith and cultural practices. The volume also
compares the images published in India with some of those available
in Pakistan to reflect different socio-political trajectories.
Finally, it discusses why such a vibrant visual culture continues
to thrive among South Asian Muslims despite the questions raised by
the orthodoxy on its legitimacy in Islam, and why images and
popular visual cultures are inevitable for popular piety despite
the orthodox Muslims' increasing dissociation from them. This work
is one of the first books on Indian Muslim poster art, with rare
images and simple narratives, anecdotes about rituals, ceremonies
and cultural traditions running parallel to research findings. This
second edition contains a new Afterword that discusses challenges
to religious plurality arising on account of changing political
landscapes, economic liberalisation, technology and new media, and
socio-religious developments. It will appeal to the lay reader as
well as the specialist and will be especially useful to researchers
and scholars in popular culture, media and cultural studies, visual
art and performance studies, and sociology and social anthropology.
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