Partisan Aesthetics
Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization
by Sanjukta Sunderason

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Editor(s)

Sanjukta Sunderason

Publisher, year

Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2020

Scope

320 p., illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781503612990

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Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Unmooring questions of Indian modernism from its hitherto dominant harnesses to national or global affiliations, Sunderason activates, instead, distinctly locational histories that refract transnational currents.

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Location

Expanded Space ; Global Art ; various locations

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.