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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NX180.S6 M46 2022 | Off-site |
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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
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780810144057
- 0810144050
- 9780810144064
- 0810144069
- 9780810144071 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021014092
- OCLC
- 1248602423
- on1248602423
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library