Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178453109X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Emilia Terracciano is a Visiting Lecturer in the History of Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, University College London and The Courtauld Institute of Art. Emilia has worked with the curatorial staff of the V&A Asian Department and was a consultant for the British Museum acquisitions team. She has published numerous articles on photography, contemporary art and politics as a critic, contributing regularly to the magazines Photomonitor, Modern Painters, Contemporary, The Caravan, Art India, Frieze and Art Monthly.
Emilia Terracciano is a Visiting Lecturer in the History of Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, University College London and The Courtauld Institute of Art. Emilia has worked with the curatorial staff of the V&A Asian Department and was a consultant for the British Museum acquisitions team. . She has published numerous articles on photography, contemporary art and politics as a critic, contributing regularly to the magazines Photomonitor, Modern Painters, Contemporary,
In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. Making an innovative, important intervention into current debates on visual culture in South Asia, this book also furthers our understanding of the history of modernism.. Art and Emergency reveals how the suspended, diagonal, fugitive lines of Nasreen Mohamedi’s abstract compositions echo Partition’s traumatic legacy; how the theatrical choreographies of Sunil Janah’s photographs document desperate famine; and how Gaganendranath Tagore’s lithographs respond to the wake of massacre. During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Emilia Terracciano traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India; she explores catastrophic turning points in the history of twentieth-century India, via the art works which emerged from them