The Art of Secularism
The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India
Price: 1795.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199453672
Publication date:
07/10/2014
Paperback
220 pages
235.0x165.0mm
Price: 1795.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199453672
Publication date:
07/10/2014
Paperback
220 pages
235.0x165.0mm
Karin Zitzewitz
Rights: SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS (RESTRICTED)
Karin Zitzewitz
Description
Written in the wake of the widely publicized attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M.F. Husain, India’s most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonly associated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relationships between modernism, national culture, secularism, and modernity that had been built since India’s independence in 1947. The Art of Secularism describes how four renowned artists—M.F. Husain, K.G. Subramanyan, Gulammoham¬med Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar—developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. Combining close readings of these artists’ work with ethnography of the art worlds of Mumbai and Va¬dodara, Karin Zitzewitz describes both the everyday forms of cosmopolitan¬ism practiced by figures like prominent gallerist Kekoo Gandhy and the increasing vulnerability of art world spaces to cultural regulation. She also presents the shifting conditions of the production and exhibition of art with¬in the particularly urgent, varied, and sophisticated public debates about secularism in India, in which artists have been increasingly prominent interlocutors.
Karin Zitzewitz
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Karin Zitzewitz
Features
- An in-depth study of the interlink between art, politics, and religion in contemporary India
- A major contribution to the disciplines of politics, art history, anthropology, and visual-cultural studies
- Contains over thirty colour illustrations that aptly help understand the arguments presented
Karin Zitzewitz
Description
Written in the wake of the widely publicized attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M.F. Husain, India’s most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonly associated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relationships between modernism, national culture, secularism, and modernity that had been built since India’s independence in 1947. The Art of Secularism describes how four renowned artists—M.F. Husain, K.G. Subramanyan, Gulammoham¬med Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar—developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. Combining close readings of these artists’ work with ethnography of the art worlds of Mumbai and Va¬dodara, Karin Zitzewitz describes both the everyday forms of cosmopolitan¬ism practiced by figures like prominent gallerist Kekoo Gandhy and the increasing vulnerability of art world spaces to cultural regulation. She also presents the shifting conditions of the production and exhibition of art with¬in the particularly urgent, varied, and sophisticated public debates about secularism in India, in which artists have been increasingly prominent interlocutors.
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