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Gandhi in the Gallery - The Art of Disobedience (Hardcover)
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Gandhi in the Gallery - The Art of Disobedience (Hardcover)
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Mohandas K. Gandhi has been described as 'an artist of
non-violence,' crafting as he did a set of practices of the self
and politics that earned him the mantle of Mahatma, 'the great
soul.' His philosophy and praxis of satyagraha, non-violent civil
disobedience, has been analysed extensively. But is satyagraha also
an aesthetic regime, with practices akin to a work of art? Is
Gandhi, then, an artist of disobedience? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores
these questions with the help of India's modern and contemporary
artists who have over the past century sought out the Mahatma as
their muse and invested in him across a wide range of media from
painting and sculpture to video installation and digital
production. At a time when Gandhi is a hallowed but hollow
presence, why have they lavished so much attention on him? A
hundred and fifty years after his birth, Gandhi is hyper visible
across the Indian landscape from tea stalls and government offices
to museums and galleries. This is ironical given that the Mahatma
appeared to have had little time for the visual arts or for artists
for that matter. Yet fascinatingly, the visual artist has emerged
as Gandhi's conscience-keeper, reminding others of the meaning of
the Mahatma in his own time and today. In so doing, these artists
also reveal why this most disobedient of 'modern' icons has grabbed
their attention, resulting in a veritable art of disobedience as an
homage to one of the twentieth century's great prophets of
disobedience.
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