| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
General Introduction / Geeta Kapur -- Contested Terrains and Critical Re-imaginings / Parul Dave Mukherji -- The Illusions and Antagonisms of Civilizational Exchange: Critical Reflections on Dismantling Asian Empires / Rustom Bharucha -- The Elephant and the Ant: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s / John Anthony Clark -- Worlding Asia: A Conceptual Framework for the First Delhi Biennale / Arshiya Lokhandwala -- Cartographic Necessities: Contemporary Practices and the Making of a Brave New World / Gayatri Sinha -- Curating Barbarians: Descriptions of a Visual Practice / Marion Pastor Roces -- Tropes and Places / Naman P. Ahuja -- Miniature, Monster, and Modernism: Curating Terror or Terror of Curating / Quddus Mirza -- An Honest Engagement with the Pitfalls (and Perks) of the Ethnic (Rubric) / Negar Azimi -- Retrieving the Far West: Towards a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam / Ranjit Hoskote -- Interrogating the Sacred: Storylines for the Self / Nancy Adajania -- The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project / Valeria Ibraeva -- Interventions in the Public Sphere / Kavita Singh -- Curating Across Agonistic Worlds / Geeta Kapur -- The Untold (the Rise of) Schisms / Shaheen Merali -- Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics / Santhosh S. -- Excavating the History of the Present: Caste as Pictorial Sign in the Works of Savi Sawarkar / Y.S. Alone -- Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication / Oscar Ho Hing Kay -- Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies / Charles Merewether |
| Summary |
Papers presented at the international conference on "Elective Affinities, Constitutive Differences: Contemporary Art in Asia", held at New Delhi during 9-11 March 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art, Asian -- 20th century
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Art, Asian -- 21st century
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ART -- General.
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Art, Asian
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dave Mukherji, Parul, editor
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Ahuja, Naman P., editor
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Singh, Kavita, editor
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| ISBN |
9788132117803 |
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8132117808 |
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8132118324 |
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9788132118329 |
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