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oapen-20.500.12657-222912024-03-22T19:23:28Z A Fragile Inheritance Mathur, Saloni Vivan Sundaram Geeta Kapur South Asian art art criticism global contemporary art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 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. 2020-03-27 11:00:30 2020-04-01T06:48:17Z 2020-04-01T06:48:17Z 2019 book 1007887 9781478003380; 9781478003014; 9781478001867 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22291 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478090311_OA.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/a-fragile-inheritance Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090311 10.1215/9781478090311 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478003380; 9781478003014; 9781478001867 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 249 Durham 2020-03-27 10:49:11, Funder name: UCLA/ Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem TOME open access
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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.
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