The art of secularism : the cultural politics of modernist art in contemporary India
Title:
The art of secularism : the cultural politics of modernist art in contemporary India
Author:
Zitzewitz, Karin.
ISBN:
9780199335411
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
xiv, 206 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
One Intention, Artistic Subjectivity, and Citizenship: M. F. Husain -- The Modernist Icon and Visual Culture: K. G. Subramanyan -- Cosmopolitanism in the Art World of Bombay/Mumbai: Kekoo Gandhy -- The Everyday Life of the Communalized City: Gulammohammed Sheikh -- An Artist's Claim to Truth: Bhupen Khakar.
Abstract:
"A study of the entanglement of visual art with secularism in the wake of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, tracking the emergence of the artist as an exemplary secular subject"
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
Field 805:
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