This book contains a collection of essays that explore the meaning of modernism in India's contemporary cultural practice.

'A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantage point to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world.
The essays are divided into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and ArtWork and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features and national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section, Frames of Reference, formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avantgards. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.' from the back cover
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REF.KAG2
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English

Publication/Creation date

2000

No of pages

440

ISBN / ISSN

8185229481

No of copies

1

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monograph

Chapter headings

Artists and ArtWork

Body as Gesture: Women Artists at Work

Elegy for an Unclaimed Beloved: Nasreen Mohamedi 1937-1990

Mid-Century Ironies: K.G. Subramanyan

Representational Dilemmas of a Nineteeth-Century Painter: Raja Ravi Varma

Film/Narratives

Articulating the Self in History: Ghatak's Jukti Takko ar Gappo

Sovereign Subject: Ray's Apu

Revelation and Doubt in Sant Tukaram and Devi

Frames of Reference

Detours from the Contemporary

National/Modern: Preliminaries

When was Modernism in Indian Art?

New Internationalism

Globalization: Navigating the Void

Dismantled Norms: Apropos an Indian/Asian Avantgarde

When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India
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