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Productive failure : writing queer transnational South Asian art histories / Alpesh Kantilal Patel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patel, Alpesh Kantilal, author.
- Series:
- Rethinking art's histories.
- Rethinking art's histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--South Asia--History.
- Art.
- Art--Historiography.
- Art and race.
- Homosexuality and art.
- Queer theory.
- South Asia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour) ; digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This monograph sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. I also examine 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. As the book progresses, art historical 'writing' includes a range of practice-led forms, such as curating exhibitions or my affective engagement with visual culture. Overall, I suggest methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history.
- Contents:
- Introduction: towards creolizing transnational South Asian art histories
- Authorship: Anish Kapoor as British/Asian/artist
- Form: queer zen
- Subject matter: writing as a racial pharmakon
- Space/site: writing queer feminist transnational South Asian art histories
- 'Practice-led': producing art, producing art history
- Affect belonging.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526113153
- 1526113155
- 9781526113146
- 1526113147
- OCLC:
- 997433488
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