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Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization

Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization

Sunderason, Sanjukta

Paperback

Series: South Asia in Motion

General ArtGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1503612996
ISBN13: 9781503612990
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 21 2020
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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