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04628aam a2200493 i 4500 001 6238857EDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 191106s2020 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019051231 020 $a 1503612996 020 $a 9781503612990 020 $a 1503611949 020 $a 9781503611948 035 $a (OCoLC)1143500452 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d HUA $d YDX $d CBY $d OCLCF $d GUA $d FNE $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d CUV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a N72.P6 $b S86 2020 082 00 $a 701/.03 $2 23 100 1 $a Sunderason, Sanjukta, $e author. 245 10 $a Partisan aesthetics : $b modern art and India's long decolonization / $c Sanjukta Sunderason. 246 30 $a Modern art and India's long decolonization 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xvi, 318 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a South Asia in motion 500 $a "Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives working in Calcutta from these decades, Sanjukta Sunderason argues that artists became political not only as reporters, organizers and cadre of India's Communist Party, or socialist fellow travelers, but through shifting modes of political participations and dissociations. Unmooring questions of Indian modernism from its hitherto dominant harnesses to national or global affiliations, Sunderason activates, instead, distinctly locational histories that refract transnational currents. She analyzes largely unknown and dispersed archives - drawings, diaries, posters, periodicals, and pamphlets, alongside paintings and prints - and insists that art as archive is foundational to understanding modern art's socialist affiliations during India's long decolonization. By bringing together expanding fields of South Asian art, global modernisms, and Third World cultures, Partisan Aesthetics generates a new narrative that combines political history of Indian modernism, social history of postcolonial cultural criticism, and intellectual history of decolonization."--taken from publisher web site. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index. 505 0 $a Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Partisan aesthetics : Configurations -- Part I. Dialogues and Dissonances -- Chapter 1. "Political potentiality" : Jamini Roy and the formations of progressive art criticism -- Chapter 2. "As agitator and organizer" : Socialist realism and artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India -- Chapter 3. "Concrete contextuality" : Realism and its discontents in the art of the Calcutta Group -- Part II. Postcolonial Displacements -- Chapter 4. "All the more real for not being preached" : Forms and futures of socialist art in Nehruvian India -- Chapter 5. "Revolution in the Tropics, love in the Tropics" : Arts of displacement in the post-colony -- Postscript. Toward an aesthetics of decolonization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 520 $a "This book is a critical social history of art in colonial and postcolonial Bengal. Sanjukta Sunderason examines continuity and change in artistic practice between these historical periods in order to highlight the porous boundaries of left-wing art and the complex aesthetics and politics of decolonization."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Art $x History $z Bengal $z Bengal $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Art and society $z Bengal $z Bengal $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism and the arts $z Bengal. $z Bengal. 650 7 $a Art and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815432 650 7 $a Art $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815309 650 7 $a Postcolonialism and the arts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073034 651 7 $a India $z Bengal. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01213579 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sunderason, Sanjukta. $t Partisan aesthetics $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020] $z 9781503613003 $w (DLC) 2019051232 830 0 $a South Asia in motion. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031135.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6238857EDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search