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Author Sunderason, Sanjukta, author.

Title Partisan aesthetics : modern art and India's long decolonization / Sanjukta Sunderason.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series South Asia in motion
South Asia in motion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations -- Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations -- 1. "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism -- 2. "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India -- 3. "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group -- PART II. Postcolonial Displacements -- 4. "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India -- 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
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Subject Art -- Political aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Political aspects.
India -- Bengal.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Art and society -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century.
Art and society.
Postcolonialism and the arts -- India -- Bengal.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sunderason, Sanjukta. Partisan aesthetics. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020] 9781503611948 (DLC) 2019051231
ISBN 1503613003
9781503613003 (electronic book)
9781503611948 (cloth)
9781503612990 (paperback)

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