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Brutal beauty : aesthetics and aspiration in urban India

Title
Brutal beauty : aesthetics and aspiration in urban India / Jisha Menon.
Author
Menon, Jisha, 1972-
Publication
  • Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
x, 234 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"Taking Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, this book explores the ways in which artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as an inescapable market logic that permeates aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life"--
Series Statement
Performance works
Uniform Title
Performance works.
Subject
  • Arts and society > India
  • Performing arts > India
  • Art and cities > India
  • Neoliberalism > India
  • Art and cities
  • Arts and society
  • Neoliberalism
  • Performing arts
  • India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Urban Striving: Panic, Property, and Precarity -- Cosmopolitan Aspirations and the Call Center Worker -- Aspiring to Queer Globality: From Shame to Self-Assertion -- Libidinal Urbanism: Narcissism in the Noir City -- Wasted: Consumer Desire and Its Detritus -- Epilogue. Receptivity and Responsibility in the Neoliberal City.
Call Number
JQE 22-141
ISBN
  • 9780810144057
  • 0810144050
  • 9780810144064
  • 0810144069
LCCN
2021014092
OCLC
1248602423
Author
Menon, Jisha, 1972- author.
Title
Brutal beauty : aesthetics and aspiration in urban India / Jisha Menon.
Publisher
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Performance works
Performance works.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JQE 22-141
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