TY  - GEN
AU  - Sunderason, Sanjukta
TI  - Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization
SN  - 9781503612990
U1  - 701.03 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  -  
N1  - 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

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