Partisan Aesthetics - Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization (Hardcover)

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives working in Calcutta from these decades, Sanjukta Sunderason argues that artists became political not only as reporters, organizers and cadre of India's Communist Party, or socialist fellow travelers, but through shifting modes of political participations and dissociations. Unmooring questions of Indian modernism from its hitherto dominant harnesses to national or global affiliations, Sunderason activates, instead, distinctly locational histories that refract transnational currents. She analyzes largely unknown and dispersed archives—drawings, diaries, posters, periodicals, and pamphlets, alongside paintings and prints—and insists that art as archive is foundational to understanding modern art's socialist affiliations during India's long decolonization. By bringing together expanding fields of South Asian art, global modernisms, and Third World cultures, Partisan Aesthetics generates a new narrative that combines political history of Indian modernism, social history of postcolonial cultural criticism, and intellectual history of decolonization.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	South Asia in Motion
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Sanjukta Sunderason
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-1194-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-1194-9
Barcode:	9781503611948

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