The Art of Dislocation

Conflict and Collaboration in Contemporary Art from South Asia
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-520-34388-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

The Art of Dislocation examines the rise of artistic collaboration amid growing conflicts within and between nation-states—Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—in South Asia over a thirty-year period between 1994 and 2024. Through long-term observation and close analysis of artworks in multiple media, Sonal Khullar traces the emergence of languages, spaces, and institutions of art; discusses critiques of nationalism, militarism, and globalization; and elucidates their relationship to histories of modernism and modernity. She identifies a shared consciousness across cities and villages about the region as a site of violence and a zone of aesthetic and political possibility. With evocative and lucid prose, this book proposes new methods for writing art histories and cultural geographies and connecting art worlds in the global south and global north.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khullar, Sonal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsNote on LanguageMapIntroduction: Stray Hens Step Across1. Everyday Partitions2. Cosmopolis Now3. Scale Drawings4. Field Notes5. Uncommon GroundsEpilogue: Paper HousesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Sonal Khullar is the W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.