Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India

by Emilia Terracciano

Book Overview

During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Emilia Terracciano traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350170402
• ISBN13: 9781350170407
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"