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Modern Art in Pakistan
History, Tradition, Place
Av Simone Wille
Häftad, 2019
772 kr
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Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition.A masterful insight into South …
Women Architects and Modernism in India
Narratives and contemporary practices
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into …
Along the Indian Highway
An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a …
Water Histories of South Asia
The Materiality of Liquescence
Av Sugata Ray, Venugopal Maddipati
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators and scholars who explore the connections between the environmental and …
Nation, Region, Modernity
The Art of K. Venkatappa
Av Deeptha Achar, Pushpamala N.
Inbunden, 2025
2586 kr
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This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa’s life (1886–1965), his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspired his art. It looks at the artist’s style and examines the question of modernity in Indian art through the interstices of the regional and the …
No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying
The Museum in South Asia
Av Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh
Häftad, 2017
847 kr
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This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in …
Along the Indian Highway
An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition
Inbunden, 2019
3156 kr
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This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a …
Along the Indian Highway
An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
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This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a …
Along the Indian Highway
An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a …
Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes
Seeing South Asian Art Anew
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate …
Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes
Seeing South Asian Art Anew
Häftad, 2024
546 kr
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Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate …
Documenting Industry
Photography, Aesthetics and Labor in India
Av Ranu Roychoudhuri, Rebecca M. Brown
Inbunden, 2025
2586 kr
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Whether a smoky portrait of a coal mine or a sweeping shot of workers building an immense dam, photographs of established and emerging industries fundamentally shaped the visual culture and politics of South Asia in the decades after independence. This volume engages with the image of the laboring …
Documenting Industry
Photography, Aesthetics and Labor in India
Av Ranu Roychoudhuri, Rebecca M. Brown
Häftad, 2026
607 kr
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Whether a smoky portrait of a coal mine or a sweeping shot of workers building an immense dam, photographs of established and emerging industries fundamentally shaped the visual culture and politics of South Asia in the decades after independence. This volume engages with the image of the laboring …
Nation, Region, Modernity
The Art of K. Venkatappa
Av Deeptha Achar, Pushpamala N.
Häftad, 2026
607 kr
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This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa’s life (1886–1965), his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspired his art. It looks at the artist’s style and examines the question of modernity in Indian art through the interstices of the regional and the …
Nuclear Ecologies
Art and Collaboration in Post-3.11 Japan
Inbunden, 2025
2586 kr
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 left Japan grappling with profound social, political, and environmental consequences. Yet, in its wake, art emerged as a powerful response: artists turned to collaborative and ecological practices to make sense of the crisis, challenging official …
Women Architects and Modernism in India
Narratives and contemporary practices
Inbunden, 2016
3156 kr
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Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into …
Water Histories of South Asia
The Materiality of Liquescence
Av Sugata Ray, Venugopal Maddipati
Inbunden, 2019
3156 kr
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This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators and scholars who explore the connections between the environmental and …
Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India
Histories from the Deccan
Häftad, 2015
847 kr
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This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the celebrated Mughal empire, giving the …
Barefoot across the Nation
M F Husain and the Idea of India
Häftad, 2019
817 kr
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This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably India’s most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic nation. For more than half a …
Women Architects and Modernism in India
Narratives and contemporary practices
E-bok, 2016
838 kr
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Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into …
Women Architects and Modernism in India
Narratives and contemporary practices
E-bok, 2016
838 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into …
Modern Art in Pakistan
History, Tradition, Place
Av Simone Wille
E-bok, 2017
864 kr
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Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition.A masterful insight into South …
Modern Art in Pakistan
History, Tradition, Place
Av Simone Wille
E-bok, 2017
883 kr
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Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition.A masterful insight into South …
No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying
The Museum in South Asia
Av Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh
E-bok, 2017
999 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in …
No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying
The Museum in South Asia
Av Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh
E-bok, 2017
999 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in …
Barefoot across the Nation
M F Husain and the Idea of India
Inbunden, 2010
1614 kr
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This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably India’s most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic nation. For more than half a …
