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Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization

By: Series: South Asian in Motion Ed. by Thomas Blom HansenPublication details: Stanford University Press 2020 StanfordDescription: xvii,318,iipISBN:
  • 9781503612990
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DDC classification:
  • 701.03 SUN
Contents:
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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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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