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Across asia and the islamic world
A new collection volume highlighting the strengths, variety and sheer wonder of The Walters Art Museum’s unique Asian and Islamic collectionsThe Walters Art Museum is among America’s most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning s...
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Another lens
The book situates diverse lens-based practices within a larger orbit of South Asian visual culture.
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Art cinema and india’s forgotten futures
Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought. She analyzes the films of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak as well as...
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Bombay hustle
Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic history of early Bombay cinema and its consolidation in the 1930s. Bombay Hustle provides vital insight into practices of modernity and political, social, and technological change in late colonial India.
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Global lives of objects
A richly illustrated volume which features 33 short essays, each taking a single object as a starting point to unravel complex, interconnected, global histories.In celebration of the centenary in 2023 of the National Museum of Asian Art, this new volume explores a range of artistic, historical, a...
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Global objects
A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesArt history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft. Gl...
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Nationalism and indigenousness in select commonwealth writings and films
Collects 24 essays that analyze select literary writings and films from the so-called ‘Commonwealth countries to explore how the concerned writers and filmmakers have depicted issues of nationalism and indigeneity.
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Public obscenities
Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for DramaA complex and compelling bilingual play that examines the intersections of queerness and Indian-American identity.When Indian-American graduate student Choton travels from the U.S. to his family’s home city of Kolkata to film interviews with the local...
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Silver & ceremony from south & southeast asia 1830-1930
A dazzling testament to Southern Asian silver’s role in the transformation and consumption of once rarified goods to those taken for granted daily around the world.Silver elevates use, not only for the diverse religious rituals of Southern Asia, but also consumption of and access to then-new item...
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Speech acts
Speech Acts contains select interviews that annotate Geeta Kapur’s contributions to modern Indian art criticism and trace her interrogations of the contemporary through various historical conjunctures
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The colonial and national formations of the national college of arts, lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s
The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, po...
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Vivan sundaram is not a photographer
Belonging to a generation of figurative artists that emerged from the Baroda School in the early 1960s, Vivan Sundaram has consistently and passionately engaged with the historical and political particularities of his own position as a subject in India and in the world at large. Ruth Rosengarten ...
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World as family
Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities.
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