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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.
List of contents
Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization
Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations
Chapter 1: "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism
Chapter 2: "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India
Chapter 3: "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group
Chapter 4: "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India
Chapter 5: "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony
About the author
Sanjukta Sunderason is Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands.
Summary
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.
