Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization
Sunderason, Sanjukta
Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization - Stanford Stanford University Press 2020 - xvii,318,iip. - South Asian in Motion Ed. by Thomas Blom Hansen .
Contents
Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations 1
PART I Dialogues and Dissonances
1. "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism 43
2. "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India85
3. "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group 129
PART II. Postcolonial Displacements
4. "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India 173
5. "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony 217
Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization 257
Notes 263
Bibliography 289
Index 309
9781503612990
701.03 / SUN
Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization - Stanford Stanford University Press 2020 - xvii,318,iip. - South Asian in Motion Ed. by Thomas Blom Hansen .
Contents
Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations 1
PART I Dialogues and Dissonances
1. "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism 43
2. "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India85
3. "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group 129
PART II. Postcolonial Displacements
4. "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India 173
5. "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony 217
Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization 257
Notes 263
Bibliography 289
Index 309
9781503612990
701.03 / SUN