Displaying Time (eBook)

The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India

Rebecca M. Brown (Autor)

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2017
248 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99995-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potters wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppets wooden hoovesthese 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 Americas image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists.Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.

Autor

lt;P>Rebecca M. Brown is associate professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Gandhi�s Spinning Wheel and the Making of India and Art for a Modern India, 1947�1980, and coeditor of A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Global South Asia
• Reihe/Serie: Global South Asia
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-295-99995-0 / 0295999950
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99995-1 / 9780295999951