| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Global South Asia |
|
Global South Asia.
|
| Contents |
Flickering light, fluttering textiles -- An interruption : Derridean temporality at the Festival -- Material transformations : clay, terracotta, trash -- Time, interrupted : people in the gallery -- Entrepreneurial exhibits -- The contemporary, at a distance -- Setting up the tent anew |
| Summary |
From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potters wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppets wooden hoovesthese scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when Americas image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. "Displaying Time" unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 9, 2017) |
| Subject |
Festival of India in the United States (1985-1986)
|
|
Art -- Exhibition techniques.
|
|
Time and art.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
0295999950 (electronic bk.) |
|
9780295999951 (electronic bk.) |
|
