Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism

'The disciplinary understandings of contemporary Indian art are being challenged in our time by experiences, narratives and strategies designated as activism. Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism explores this space between art and activism without letting the discourse being reduced either to a simple formulation about art in activism or activism in art. The focus, instead, is on interrogating the politics of aesthetics as well as the connections between the visual and other disciplines. Deriving its insights from methodological moves made in the fields of art history/criticism, culture studies and visual culture, the book foregrounds the links between the practice of art and the urgencies of the public world trying to bridge, in the process, the space that reaches across the academy and all that is known as activism in our time. The different sections in the book explore the complex relationship between art-producing practices and frameworks of viewing that seek alignment with the various struggles around caste, community, gender and sexuality.' (from publisher's website)

With brief biographies of the contributors.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Tulika Books (New Delhi, India)

editor

Deeptha ACHAR,

Shivaji K. PANIKKAR

Location code

REF.ACD2

Language

English

Keyword

activist art, art history, art criticism, feminism, India

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

322

ISBN / ISSN

9789382381013

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

INTERRUPTIONS

Media, City and the 'Fine-Artie':Notes on the Student Protest in the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, 2007 - Akhilesh ARYA, Koonal DUGGAL, Vasvi OZA, Sneha RAGAVAN

SITES OF ACTIVIST INTERVENTION

Culture of Tolerance - G.P. DESHPANDE

Secular Artist, Citizen Artist - Geeta KAPUR

Sahmat 1989-2011: A Timeline

The Shifting Sites of Secularism: Cultural Politics and Activism in India Today - Rustom BHARUCHA

From Ambedkar to Thakkar and Beyond: Towards a Genealogy of Our Activisms - R. SRIVATSAN

DALIT ISSUES, DALIT ART

Caste, the Artist and the Historian: What Colour Is the Nationalist Cow? - Kancha ILAIAH

The Neo-Buddhist Movement and the Formation of Dalit Identity in Art, Architecture and Culture - Y.S. ALONE

Dalits, Art and the Imagery of Everday Life - Gary Michael TARTAKOV

PROBLEMATIZING THE MINOR IN ART

Tribal Art and Dalit Art: Questions of the Contemporary - P.J. BENOY

Spectres of the 'Radicals', or Where Have All the 'Radicals' Gone? - Santhosh S.

Is Another Art Possible? - Jothi XAVIER

IMAGING WOMEN, IMAGINING SEXUALITIES

'Invisible Chemistry': The Women's Movement and the Indian Woman Artist - Deeptha ACHAR

Contemporary Women Artists in India: Riots, Violence and the Multiple Politics of Praxis - Parul DAVE-MUKHERJI

'Kinky' Issues: Gay Identity and High Art - Shivaji K. PANIKKAR

Chandni Ba(ha)r: Questions of Place, Space and Censorship - Nalini KANNEGAL, Nivedita KUTTIAH

On the Making of Bombay Longing: Queer Activism in Art and Cinema - Georgina MADDOX

Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism

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