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A Brief History of South Asian Art - Alina Khakoo

A Brief History of South Asian Art

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Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2025
Tate Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84976-879-5 (ISBN)
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An insightful exploration celebrating the diverse and dynamic cultural impact of South Asian artists and filmmakers in twentieth-century Britain.


This book will introduce readers to an array of South Asian artists active in the twentieth century, all of whom demonstrate such variety that they challenge the unifying category ‘South Asian’. From Punjabi war veterans who came to fill labour shortages in the interwar period, through to South Asians from Uganda who settled in Britain after expulsion by Idi Amin in 1972, this book will explore how the South Asian diaspora responded to hostility and discrimination by turning to artistic production. Using a variety of media, they made artworks which demanded the colonial constitution of art history be interrogated, and the lives of South Asians to be transformed.


These artworks, together with those by contemporary artists that draw from and reorient their ancestral legacies, have contributed to incisive theories of race, gender, nationhood and aesthetics – all of which come to bear on present debates on power in the art world and beyond.

Alina Khakoo is a PhD student on the Criticism and Culture programme at Cambridge University, supervised by Priyamvada Gopal, Amy Tobin and Shamira Meghani. Her thesis looks at South Asian diasporic artmaking in 1980s Britain, across the contexts of art education, art publishing, archives, and the display of art, thinking through concepts of group work, DIY artmaking, and the relations between politics and aesthetics. Alongside her PhD, Alina has worked on the curatorial team at Kettle’s Yard, assisting on the exhibitions Linderism (2020), Untitled (2021) and Sutapa Biswas (2021–22). She also works as a library volunteer at Tate, where she catalogues the Panchayat Special Collection. Her publications include the book chapter ‘Reading Between the Texts: On Kali (1984)’, in Lumen: Sutapa Biswas, Cambridge, London and Newcastle: Kettle’s Yard, Ridinghouse and BALTIC, 2021. She has taught as a guest lecturer and supervisor in the Faculty of History of Art and the Faculty of English at Cambridge, and has co-facilitated events such as the Kali Student Reading Group with Lola Olufemi (2021); the Decolonising the Archive workshop with Samia Malik of the Women of Colour Index Reading Group (2021); and seminars for the Postcolonial and Related Literatures Postgraduate Research Seminar series at Cambridge, which she has co-convened since 2019.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.3.2025
Zusatzinfo 65 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 173 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 1-84976-879-X / 184976879X
ISBN-13 978-1-84976-879-5 / 9781849768795
Zustand Neuware
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