{"product_id":"how-secular-is-art-on-the-politics-of-art-history-and-religion-in-south-asia-paperback-softback-9781009380478","title":"How Secular Is Art?; On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009380478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow Secular Is Art?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book unravels the complex relationship between the modern categories of art, religion and secularism in contemporary South Asia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTapati Guha-Thakurta (Edited by), Vazira Zamindar (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009380478, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e444 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.715 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'What is exciting about the collection is that the essays therein offer myriad ways to test the limits of the secular and thus model within its pages the (secular) practice of productive disagreement.' Mohit Manohar, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAs an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications It questions the temporal, spatial, and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. Thinking from the south, all the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region – one fissured by histories of partition, state formations, and religious nationalisms but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks: How do we complicate the religious designations of pre-modern art and architecture and the new forms of their resurgence in contemporary iconographies and monuments? How do we re-conceptualize the public and the political, as fiery contestations and new curatorial practices reconfigure the meaning of art in the proliferating spaces of museums, galleries, biennales and festivals? How do we understand South Asian art's deep entanglements with the politics of the present?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Images\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Vazira Zamindar\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Secularity and Its Art: 2. Indian Secularism and Art in a Time of Crisis Akeel Bilgrami\u003cbr\u003e 3. Art and Secularism in Contemporary India: A Question of Method Karin Zitzewitz\u003cbr\u003e 4. In Which Contemporary Indian Iconopraxis Devours Some Sacred Cows of Art History Kajri Jain\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Boundaries of Secular Nationalism: 5. Displacements of Secularity: Decapitations and Their Histories Vazira Zamindar\u003cbr\u003e 6. Modern Art and East Pakistan: Drawing from the Limits Sanjukta Sunderason\u003cbr\u003e 7. Making Place for People? Geeta Kapur, Secular Nationalism, and 'Indian' Art Zehra Jumabhoy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Art and Its Gods: 8. Shivaji's Portrait and the Practice of Art History Holly Shaffer\u003cbr\u003e 9. Can a Festival of a Goddess Be 'Secular'? Tapati Guha-Thakurta\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India Sumathi Ramaswamy\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Architectures of Devotion: 11. Re-enchanting Mughal Architecture: A Critique of the Secular Disenchantment of India's Past Santhi Kavuri-Bauer\u003cbr\u003e 12. Rebuilding Konarak in the Twentieth Century: Legacies of Colonial Archaeology and Discourses of Inclusivity in Gwalior's Birla Temple Tamara Sears\u003cbr\u003e 13. For the Love of God: Conservation as Devotion in Tamil Nadu Kavita Singh\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political activism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political activism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20activism%20%5BJPW%5D%22\"\u003eJPW\u003c\/a\u003e], Religion \u0026amp; politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religion \u0026amp; politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religion%20\u0026amp;%20politics%20%5BHRAM2%5D%22\"\u003eHRAM2\u003c\/a\u003e], Religious subjects depicted in art [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religious subjects depicted in art\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religious%20subjects%20depicted%20in%20art%20%5BAGR%5D%22\"\u003eAGR\u003c\/a\u003e], Small-scale, secular \u0026amp; domestic scenes in art [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Small-scale, secular \u0026amp; domestic scenes in art\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Small-scale,%20secular%20\u0026amp;%20domestic%20scenes%20in%20art%20%5BAGK%5D%22\"\u003eAGK\u003c\/a\u003e], Art treatments \u0026amp; subjects [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Art treatments \u0026amp; subjects\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Art%20treatments%20\u0026amp;%20subjects%20%5BAG%5D%22\"\u003eAG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501147156760,"sku":"9781009380478","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009380478i.jpg?v=1786212644","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-secular-is-art-on-the-politics-of-art-history-and-religion-in-south-asia-paperback-softback-9781009380478","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}