Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : decoding visual worlds / Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak, editors.
2019
N72.A56 I58 2019
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Title
Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia : decoding visual worlds / Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak, editors.
ISBN
3030058522 (electronic book)
9783030058524 (electronic book)
9783030058517
3030058514
9783030058524 (electronic book)
9783030058517
3030058514
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (311 pages)
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N72.A56 I58 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
701.030954
Summary
Taking South Asia as its focus, this wide-ranging collection probes the general reluctance of the cultural anthropology to engage with contemporary visual art and artists, including painting, sculpture, performance art and installation. Through case studies engaged equally in anthropology and visual studies, contributors examine art and artistic production in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal to bring the social and political complexities of artistic practice to the fore. Demonstrating the potential of the visual as a means to understand a society, its values, and its politics, this volume ranges across discourses of anthropology, sociology, biography, memory, art history, and contemporary practices of visual art. Ultimately, Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia simultaneously expands and challenges the disciplinary foci of two fields: it demonstrates to art criticism and art history the necessity of anthropological and sociological methodologies and theories, while at the same time challenging the "iconophobia" of social sciences.
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Perera, Sasanka, editor.
Pathak, Dev Nath, editor.
Pathak, Dev Nath, editor.
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