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010			_aENG-111210
020			_a9780199453672 _c1795.00
035			_aEN-94742
037			_bDBAD/PUB
082			_a701.030954
100			_aZitzewitz, Karin
245			_aThe art of secularism : _bthe cultural politics of modernist art in contemporary India / _cby Karin Zitzewitz
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2014
270			_aYMCA Library building, 1 Jai Singh Road _bNew Delhi _e110001
300			_axiv, 206p. : _c23cm(pbk) _bill. (mostly color)
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505			_a One Intention, Artistic Subjectivity, and Citizenship: M. F. Husain -- The Modernist Icon and Visual Culture: K. G. Subramanyan -- Cosmopolitanism in the Art World of Bombay/Mumbai: Kekoo Gandhy -- The Everyday Life of the Communalized City: Gulammohammed Sheikh -- An Artist’s Claim to Truth: Bhupen Khakar.
520			_a "Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India’s most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonly associated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relationships between modernism, national culture, secularism and modernity that had been built since India’s independence in 1947. The Art of Secularism describes how four renowned artists--M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar--developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. Combining close readings of these artists’ work with ethnography of the art worlds of Mumbai and Vadodara, Karin Zitzewitz describes both the everyday forms of cosmopolitanism in the Indian art world and the increasing vulnerability of art world spaces to cultural regulation. She also presents the shifting conditions of the production and exhibition of art within the particularly urgent, varied, and sophisticated public debates about secularism in India, in which artists have been increasingly prominent interlocutors"-- |c Provided by publisher.
520			_a "A study of the entanglement of visual art with secularism in the wake of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, tracking the emergence of the artist as an exemplary secular subject"-- |c Provided by publisher.
650			_a Nationalism and art _zIndia.
650			_a Art and society _zIndia.
650			_aSecularism _zIndia.
650			_a Modernism (Art) _zIndia.
650			_a Artists _zIndia _xSocial conditions.
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