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9%OFFKarin Zitzewitz - The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India - 9781849042956 - V9781849042956
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The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India

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Description for The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India Hardback. A study of the entanglement of visual art with secularism in the wake of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, tracking the emergence of the artist as an exemplary secular subject. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJP; 3JM; ACXJ; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 680.
Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonly associated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relation- ships between modernism, national culture, secularism and modernity that had been built since India's independence in 1947. The Art of Secularism describes how four renowned artists - M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849042956
SKU
V9781849042956
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About Karin Zitzewitz
Karin Zitzewitz is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Michigan State University.

Reviews for The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India
The Art of Secularism probes the enormously complex dialectic between religious iconography and the secular image within the trajectories of modernism in India, and engages with some of its most volatile effects - censorship, blasphemy, intolerance, violence - in careful and intelligent ways. It opens up many powerful questions and lines of investigation, and will no doubt help galvanise future ... Read more

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