The alternate nation of Abanindranath Tagore:
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Beteilige Person: Banerji, Debashish (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi SAGE 2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132) and index
Modernity, nation and community-a point of departure -- Orientalism, nationalism and the politics of narration -- Regional subalternity -- Intersubjective narration -- Practices of community and the alternate nation
The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of a 'national' school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. It categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed as part of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th-20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of nationalist or orientalist principles, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community, geared toward the fashioning of an alternate nation, resistant to the stereotyping identity f
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xlvii, 136 pages)
ISBN:8132102398
8132104854
9788132102397
9788132104858