Partisan Aesthetics by Sanjukta Sunderason

Partisan Aesthetics by Sanjukta Sunderason

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India's long decolonization.

"Sunderason's timely tracing of the production of the political in and through visual art contributes to our global understanding of the aesthetic forms of decolonizationThe result is a rigorous argument regarding the many modalities of the mutual entanglement of art and progressive politics during a transformative period of modern India's history."—Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University "An original and timely book, Partisan Aesthetics is essential reading for scholars of modern South Asia and its visual culture, global urbanisms, and art in socialist and postsocialist societies."—Sonal Khullar, author of Worldly Affiliations "Archivally grounded and methodologically sophisticated, this work is a defining study of modern art in South Asia. A most significant contribution to our understanding of the relation between aesthetics and politics in a global context."—Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University "Partisan Aesthetics is a seminal publication – intellectually rigorous, inventive and a richly persuasive study of the intersection of art and politics in mid-twentieth century India."—Rituparna Roy, The Wire

Sanjukta Sunderason is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands.

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ISBN 13	9781503611948
ISBN 10	1503611949
Title	Partisan Aesthetics
Author	Sanjukta Sunderason
Series	South Asia In Motion
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Stanford University Press
Year published	2020-07-21
Number of pages	344
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