Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations -- Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations -- 1. "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism -- 2. "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India -- 3. "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group -- PART II. Postcolonial Displacements -- 4. "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India -- 5. "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony -- Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
"This book is a critical social history of art in colonial and postcolonial Bengal. Sanjukta Sunderason examines continuity and change in artistic practice between these historical periods in order to highlight the porous boundaries of left-wing art and the complex aesthetics and politics of decolonization"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2021)
