Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : decoding visual worlds
- Title
- Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : decoding visual worlds / Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak, editors.
- Published by
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
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- Description
- xvii, 302 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Taking South Asia as its focus, this wide-ranging collection probes the general reluctance of the cultural anthropology to engage with contemporary visual art and artists, including painting, sculpture, performance art and installation. Through case studies engaged equally in anthropology and visual studies, contributors examine art and artistic production in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal to bring the social and political complexities of artistic practice to the fore. Demonstrating the potential of the visual as a means to understand a society, its values, and its politics, this volume ranges across discourses of anthropology, sociology, biography, memory, art history, and contemporary practices of visual art. Ultimately, Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia simultaneously expands and challenges the disciplinary foci of two fields: it demonstrates to art criticism and art history the necessity of anthropological and sociological methodologies and theories, while at the same time challenging the?iconophobia? of social sciences.
- Subject
- Contents
- Intersections and Implications: When Anthropology, Art Practice, and Art History Converge / Sasanka Perera and Dev Nath Pathak -- Section I: Contours of Guest: Arts at Crossroad. Mimicking Anthropologists: Re-Membering a Photo Archive via Pata Paintings, Performative Mimesis, and Photo Performance / Parul Dave Mukherji -- Reframing the Contexts for Pakistani Contemporary Art / Salima Hashmi and Farida Batool -- 'Art' of Ethnography: Feminist Ethnography and Women Artists in South Asia / Pooja Kalita -- Section II: Political and Aesthetic: Explorations of Intersections. Globalisation and Local Anxieties in the Art of Bangladesh: The Interface of History and the Contemporary / Lala Rukh Selim -- Between Anthropology and History: The Entangled Lives of Jangarh Singh Shyam and Jagdish Swaminathan / Sandip K. Luis -- Toward Blurring the Boundaries in Anthropology: Reading Jamini Roy Today / Jyoti -- Imposed, Interrupted and Other Identities: Rupture as Opportunity in the Art History of Pakistan / Niilofur Farrukh -- Section III: Art for Public: Individual, Institutions, and Issues. Transcending and Subverting Boundaries: Understanding the Dynamics of Street Art Scene in Nepal / Binit Gurung -- Ruptures of Rasheed Araeen in the Politics of Visual Art: Toward a New Art Discourse in Pakistan / Amra Ali -- Collectivism in the Contemporary Sri Lankan Art: The History of an Unusual Case of Artists / Anoli Perera.
- Call number
- JQD 19-418
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title
- Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : decoding visual worlds / Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak, editors.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added author
- Perera, Sasanka, editor.
- Pathak, Dev Nath, editor.
- Other form:
- Ebook version : 9783030058524
- ISBN
- 9783030058517 hardcover
- 3030058514 hardcover
- 9783030058524 e-Book
- 3030058522 e-Book
- Research call number
- JQD 19-418