How secular is art? : on the politics of art, history, and religion in South Asia / edited by Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Vazira Zamindar.

Contributor(s): Guha-Thakurta, Tapati [editor.] | Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali [editor.].

Material type: Text

Text Language of document:EnglishPublisher: 2023Description: xiv, 429 p. : ill. (Black and White) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781009380478.Subject(s): Art and society -- South Asia | Art and religion -- South Asia | Civilization, Secular | Art -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 701.030954

Partial contents:

Indian Secularism and Art in a Time of Crisis / Akeel Bilgrami -- Modern Art and East Pakistan: Drawing from the Limits / Sanjukta Sunderason -- For the Love of God: Conservation as Devotion in Tamil Nadu / Kavita Singh.

Summary: "As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial, and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian subcontinent-one fissured by histories of partition, state formations, and religious nationalisms but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks: How do we complicate the religious designations of pre-modern art and architecture and the new forms of their resurgence in contemporary iconographies and monuments? How do we re-conceptualize the public and the political, as fiery contestations and new curatorial practices reconfigure the meaning of art in the proliferating spaces of museums, galleries, biennales, and festivals? How do we understand South Asian art's deep entanglements with the politics of the present?"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Art Collections	Arts Collection	701.030954 G9399 Ho (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		271573

Includes index.

"As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial, and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian subcontinent-one fissured by histories of partition, state formations, and religious nationalisms but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks: How do we complicate the religious designations of pre-modern art and architecture and the new forms of their resurgence in contemporary iconographies and monuments? How do we re-conceptualize the public and the political, as fiery contestations and new curatorial practices reconfigure the meaning of art in the proliferating spaces of museums, galleries, biennales, and festivals? How do we understand South Asian art's deep entanglements with the politics of the present?"-- Provided by publisher.

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