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Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India
Emilia Terracciano
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Description for Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India
Hardcover. Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, this book traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 48 bw integrated, 32 colour in 2x8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACXD2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. 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. Art and Emergency reveals how the suspended, diagonal, fugitive lines of Nasreen Mohamedi's abstract ... Read more
During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. 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. Art and Emergency reveals how the suspended, diagonal, fugitive lines of Nasreen Mohamedi's abstract ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531096
SKU
V9781784531096
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About Emilia Terracciano
Emilia Terracciano is the Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (2015-2018). Her research interest lies in contemporary photographic art practices with a focus on the visual cultures of the global south. Emilia has taught in various institutions including University College London, The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Sotheby's Institute of Art, The ... Read more
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