Productive Failure - Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories

Informationen zum Autor Alpesh Kantilal Patel is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at Florida International University, Miami Klappentext This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. The author examines 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. This book also provides original commentary on how queer theory can deconstruct and provide new approaches for writing art history. Overall, this title provides methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history. Zusammenfassung This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Towards creolising transnational South Asian art histories2 Authorship: Anish Kapoor as British/Asian/artist 3 Form: queer zen4 Subject matter: writing as a racial pharmakon5 Space/site: writing queer feminist transnational South Asian art histories6 'Practice-led': producing art, producing art history7 Affect: belongingAfterword: Toward writing indigenous transnational South Asian art historiesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Alpesh Patel, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Patel Alpesh Kantilal
• Assisted by: Amelia Jones (Editor), Marsha Meskimmon (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781784992545
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-254-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Art's Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ethnic Studies, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, ART / Asian / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General