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Productive failure : writing queer transnational South Asian art histories
- Title
- Productive failure : writing queer transnational South Asian art histories / Alpesh Kantilal Patel.
- Author
- Patel, Alpesh Kantilal
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xxii, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- This monograph 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. I also examine 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. As the book progresses, art historical 'writing' includes a range of practice-led forms, such as curating exhibitions or my affective engagement with visual culture. Overall, I suggest 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.
- Series Statement
- Rethinking art's histories
- Uniform Title
- Rethinking art's histories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: towards creolizing transnational South Asian art histories -- Authorship: Anish Kapoor as British/Asian/artist -- Form: queer zen -- Subject matter: writing as a racial pharmakon -- Space/site: writing queer feminist transnational South Asian art histories -- 'Practice-led': producing art, producing art history -- Affect belonging.
- Call Number
- JQE 17-966
- ISBN
- 9781784992545
- 1784992542
- OCLC
- 968773585
- Author
- Patel, Alpesh Kantilal, author.
- Title
- Productive failure : writing queer transnational South Asian art histories / Alpesh Kantilal Patel.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Rethinking art's historiesRethinking art's histories.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 17-966