Art and emergency : modernism in twentieth-century India / Emilia Terracciano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terracciano, Emilia, author.

Contributor:

Kowell Family Art History Fund.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art

International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art).

India.

Modernism (Art)--India--20th century.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

xx, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2018.

Summary:

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 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. 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. Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: tearing apart the storm of progress

Fugitive lines of desire: Nasreen Mohamedi 1947-77

Beyond or in emergency? The emergence of photography during the 1943 Bengal famine: Sunil Janah

Laughing in the shadow of Swadeshi: Gaganendranath Tagore 1905-21.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kowell Family Art History Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Terracciano, Emilia. Art and emergency.

ISBN:

9781784531096

178453109X

OCLC:

1017656478