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020 _a9781503612990
082 _a701.03
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100 _aSunderason, Sanjukta
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245 _aPartisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization
260 _bStanford University Press
_c2020
_aStanford
300 _axvii,318,iip.
440 _aSouth Asian in Motion Ed. by Thomas Blom Hansen
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505 _aContents 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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