Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual Worlds
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, this book 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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Asia, Anthropology, Biography, Globalization, Painting, Installation, Art history and art criticism, Modernism, Performance, Sculpture, Sociology, Street art & graffiti, Feminism, Photography, Ethnography
Kalita Pooja (Article author), Luis Sandip K. (Article author), Jyoti (Article author), Farrukh Niilofur (Article author), Gurung Binit (Article author), Perera Anoli (Article author), Selim Lala Rukh (Article author), Ali Amra (Article author), Batool Farida (Article author), Dave‑Mukherji Parul (Article author), Hashmi Salima (Article author), Perera Sasanka (Preface), Pathak Dev Nath (Preface)
London
2019
320 pages
9783030058517
Available on request
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No
701.1 Pat
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