Displaying Time : The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India Hardback
by Rebecca M. Brown
Part of the Global South Asia series
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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.
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- Pages:248 pages, 20 color illus., 70 b&w illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:11/05/2017
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- ISBN:9780295999944
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 20 color illus., 70 b&w illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:11/05/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780295999944