How secular is art?: On the politics of art, history, and religion in South Asia
"As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial, and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the ...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asia
/ Art
/ Religion
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Civilization, Secular
B Collection of essays B Art and society (South Asia) B Art and religion (South Asia) B Species Historiography |
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Table of Contents Blurb |
| Summary: | "As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial, and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian subcontinent-one fissured by histories of partition, state formations, and religious nationalisms but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks: How do we complicate the religious designations of pre-modern art and architecture and the new forms of their resurgence in contemporary iconographies and monuments? How do we re-conceptualize the public and the political, as fiery contestations and new curatorial practices reconfigure the meaning of art in the proliferating spaces of museums, galleries, biennales, and festivals? How do we understand South Asian art's deep entanglements with the politics of the present?"-- Indian Secularism and Art in a Time of Crisis / Akeel Bilgrami -- Modern Art and East Pakistan: Drawing from the Limits / Sanjukta Sunderason -- For the Love of God: Conservation as Devotion in Tamil Nadu / Kavita Singh. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 429 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 1009380478 |