Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India

by Rebecca M Brown and Rebecca M. Brown

Book Overview

From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves--these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America's image of India...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295999942
• ISBN13: 9780295999944
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher