02857oam 2200601I 450 991038381010332120250322110035.09781478003014147800301497814780033801478003383(CKB)4100000009751235(MiAaPQ)EBC5969500(OCoLC)1142317667(MdBmJHUP)muse795071125131162(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26729(ODN)ODN0011133851(DE-B1597)600475(DE-B1597)9781478090311(Perlego)1466853(oapen)doab26729(EXLCZ)99410000000975123520191027h20192019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA fragile inheritance radical stakes in contemporary Indian art /Saloni MathurDurhamDuke University Press2019Durham :Duke University Press,2019.©20191 online resource (250 pages)1-4780-0186-0 1-4780-9031-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: A fragile inheritance -- Earthly ecologies -- The edifice complex -- The world, the art, and the critic -- Urban economies -- Epilogue late styles.In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.Art, Indic20th centuryArt, Indic21st centuryArtPolitical aspectsIndiaArt, IndicArt, IndicArtPolitical aspects709.540904Mathur Saloni904318NDDNDDBOOK9910383810103321A fragile inheritance2022019UNINA