{"product_id":"partisan-aesthetics-modern-art-and-indias-long-decolonization-hardback-9781503611948","title":"Partisan Aesthetics; Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Hardback) 9781503611948","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePartisan Aesthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModern Art and India's Long Decolonization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSanjukta Sunderason (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503611948\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 31 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 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\"Sunderason's timely tracing of the production of the political in and through visual art contributes to our global understanding of the aesthetic forms of decolonization. The result is a rigorous argument regarding the many modalities of the mutual entanglement of art and progressive politics during a transformative period of modern India's history.\"—Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University \"An original and timely book, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for scholars of modern South Asia and its visual culture, global urbanisms, and art in socialist and postsocialist societies.\"—Sonal Khullar, author of \u003ci\u003eWorldly Affiliations\u003c\/i\u003e \"Archivally grounded and methodologically sophisticated, this work is a defining study of modern art in South Asia. A most significant contribution to our understanding of the relation between aesthetics and politics in a global context.\"—Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University \"\u003ci\u003ePartisan Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal publication – intellectually rigorous, inventive and a richly persuasive study of the intersection of art and politics in mid-twentieth century India.\"—Rituparna Roy, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePartisan Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ebecame\u003c\/i\u003e political through interactions with left-wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post-independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives working in Calcutta from these decades, Sanjukta Sunderason argues that artists became political not only as reporters, organizers and cadre of India's Communist Party, or socialist fellow travelers, but through shifting modes of political participations and dissociations. 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. She analyzes largely unknown and dispersed archives—drawings, diaries, posters, periodicals, and pamphlets, alongside paintings and prints—and insists that art \u003ci\u003eas archive\u003c\/i\u003e is foundational to understanding modern art's socialist affiliations during India's long decolonization. By bringing together expanding fields of South Asian art, global modernisms, and Third World cultures, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e generates a new narrative that combines political history of Indian modernism, social history of postcolonial cultural criticism, and intellectual history of decolonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePostscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1: \"\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Potentiality\"\u003cbr\u003e: Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2: \"\u003cbr\u003eAs Agitator and Organizer\"\u003cbr\u003e: Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3: \"\u003cbr\u003eConcrete Contextuality\"\u003cbr\u003e: Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4: \"\u003cbr\u003eAll the More Real for Not Being Preached\"\u003cbr\u003e: Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5: \"\u003cbr\u003eRevolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics\"\u003cbr\u003e: Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610610233624,"sku":"9781503611948","price":83.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/partisan-aesthetics-modern-art-and-indias-long-decolonization-hardback-9781503611948","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}