Influx : contemporary art in Asia / edited by Parul Dave Mukherji, Naman P. Ahuja, Kavita Singh.

Other author Dave Mukherji, Parul editor.
Other author Ahuja, Naman P., editor.
Other author Singh, Kavita editor.
Format Book
PublicationThousand Oaks, California : Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2013.
Descriptionxxvii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Art and society--Asia. --History. --21st century.

Portion of title Contemporary art in Asia
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.
Abstract 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012047205
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