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" Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : "
Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak, editors.
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860700
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Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : : decoding visual worlds /\ Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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1 online resource (311 pages)
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3030058522
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3030058514
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9783030058517
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Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Intersections and Implications: When Anthropology, Art Practice, and Art History Converge; Triggers on the Terrain of Thought; Why Convergence?; Polyphonic Intersections and Bearings of the Book; Consequence of Conversation; References; Section I: Contours of Quest: Arts at Crossroad; Chapter 2: Mimicking Anthropologists: Re-Membering a Photo Archive via Pata Paintings, Performative Mimesis, and Photo Performance; I; Seeing the Genre of a Group Photo Anthropologically; II; III
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Experiencing Alternative Modernity: Localizing the IdiomComplicating the Narrative of Extremism; Beyond the Sanctioned Framework; Conclusion; References; Section III: Art for Public: Individual, Institutions, and Issues; Chapter 9: Transcending and Subverting Boundaries: Understanding the Dynamics of Street Art Scene in Nepal; Sociology of Art: Insights for Understanding the Context of Nepal; Particular Amidst General: The Emergence of Street Art in Nepal; The Personal and the Political: Locating Aesthetics in Street Art; The Local and the Global: The Production and Consumption of Street Arts
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In Conclusion: The Sovereign and the SubalternReferences; Chapter 7: Toward Blurring the Boundaries in Anthropology: Reading Jamini Roy Today; Introduction; Vocabulary of Art; Western Art, Local Politics, and the Idea of Nationhood; Roy and Academic Realism; Roy and Bengali Traditional Art; Style and Self-consciousness; Anonymity and Recognition; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Imposed, Interrupted and Other Identities: Rupture as Opportunity in the Art History of Pakistan; Modernism: Disconnect, Discontent and Disillusionment; Modernism and Socialism: Strange Bedfellows in Art
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Pushpamala and the Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Art in India: Fashioning Herself as a Native South Indian Woman via Photo PerformanceReferences; Chapter 3: Reframing the Contexts for Pakistani Contemporary Art; Women Amidst Local and Trans-local; Intruding Art History: From the Liminal to the Mainstream; In Conclusion: Networks, Collectives, and Individuality; References; Chapter 4: 'Art' of Ethnography: Feminist Ethnography and Women Artists in South Asia; Tracing the Path: An Initial Attempt; Navigation Beyond Highs and Lows; How to Traverse This Path? Moving Beyond the 'Fear'
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Reflections on an Inconclusive ConclusionReferences; Section II: Political and Aesthetic: Explorations of Intersections; Chapter 5: Globalisation and Local Anxieties in the Art of Bangladesh: The Interface of History and the Contemporary; Dilemmas and Inheritance of Art-Politics; Networked Art Practices: Invitations and Impacts; Conclusion Amidst Anxieties; References; Chapter 6: Between Anthropology and History: The Entangled Lives of Jangarh Singh Shyam and Jagdish Swaminathan; Introduction; From Primitivism to Indigenism, and the 'Civil War'; From Forst to the Capital, and a Campfire
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Taking South Asia as its focus, this wide-ranging collection probes the general reluctance of the cultural anthropology to engage with contemporary visual art and artists, including painting, sculpture, performance art and installation. Through case studies engaged equally in anthropology and visual studies, contributors examine art and artistic production in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal to bring the social and political complexities of artistic practice to the fore. Demonstrating the potential of the visual as a means to understand a society, its values, and its politics, this volume ranges across discourses of anthropology, sociology, biography, memory, art history, and contemporary practices of visual art. Ultimately, Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia simultaneously expands and challenges the disciplinary foci of two fields: it demonstrates to art criticism and art history the necessity of anthropological and sociological methodologies and theories, while at the same time challenging the "iconophobia" of social sciences.
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Art and anthropology-- South Asia.
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Art and anthropology.
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South Asia.
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701.030954
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N72.A56I58 2019
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Pathak, Dev Nath
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Perera, Sasanka
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