| Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India Contributor(s): Brown, Rebecca M. (Author), Sivaramakrishnan, K. (Editor), Yang, Anand A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0295999942 ISBN-13: 9780295999944 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 700.954 |
| LCCN: 2016023732 |
| Series: Global South Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7" W x 10.1" (1.49 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves--these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America's image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now. |
