Vivan Sundaram is Not a Photographer
Vivan Sundaram is Not a Photographer

Author: Ruth Rosengarten

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788193732908

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"In this book, Ruth Rosengarten considers the expanded field of the 'photographic' in the work of Indian artist Vivan Sundaram, beginning with the notion that Sundaram is not a photographer in any traditional sense of the term. Discussing the ontological shift that photography has undergone in the age of digital production, Rosengarten considers 'photograpy' as more a practice than a medium. Exploring the uses of the historial artistic methods of assemblage, bricolage and the assisted readymade, she throws light on Sundaram's individual uses, and subversions, of documentary photography. In each chapter, a single or two bodies of work are analysed, positioning Sundaram in relation to various propositions in which the relationship between photography and politics is probed. Often site-specific and always entailing the collaboration of numerous other practitioners, Sundaram's work lays bare the limitations of individual studio practice and single authoriship. The works, Rosengarten argues, invite us to consider and immerse ourselves materially in the ethical claims of photography, raising question about archivalism in art practice, and throwing light on Sundaram's locational commitment as a citizen artist."--Cover flap.

Vivan Sundaram
Vivan Sundaram

Author: Homi Bhabha

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9789382381945

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This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India's most innovative artists, located his History Project, marking fifty years of Indian independence, in a hugely visited and popular public institution, the Victoria Memorial and Museum in Kolkata. The artist's choice of setting was by way of a challenge: to 'occupy' an imperial edifice and change its orientation; to reflect India's struggle for independence and the emerging nation's stake in modernity through an anachronistic mirror; and to engage with postcolonial contradictions through recursive narration. It needed an artwork scaled to the proportion of these issues and the book examines how Sundaram met this challenge. His ideology and aesthetic, his formal choices and method, are critically investigated in a series of essays contributed by distinguished authors: cultural theorists, art and architectural historians. The book carries abundant, well-annotated illustrations of the complex installation.

A Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists
A Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists

Author: Amrita Jhaveri

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Crisp, lively, and jargon-free, this one-of-a-kind collection concisely introduces 101 artists painters,sculptors, photographers, and new media artists. The variety of ideas and forms in contemporary Indianart are presented here in just over 160 pages, and illustrated with an extraordinary gathering of images.The essays are both authoritative and accessible, addressing each artist s primary concerns and methods.They also include important biographical information and vivid descriptions of select pieces.

A Fragile Inheritance
A Fragile Inheritance

Author: Saloni Mathur

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1478003383

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In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

Re-take of Amrita
Re-take of Amrita

Author: Vivan Sundaram

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Re-take of 'Amrita' is a book of 38 digital photomontages by Vivan Sundaram, with a preface and annotation by the artist-author. These montages are the result of a collaborative photographic project: between Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870-1954), the 'essential' photographer (who took numerous self-portraits), and Vivan Sundaram, who orchestrates with a digital wand, archival photographs of the Sher-Gil family. Vivan enters the space of the Sher-Gil homes and makes the members of the family enact (and re-enact) moments of radiating desire under his direction. The 'encounters' generated in this process of re-casting the family in new roles elaborate into a fictional narrative. The central axis of the cinematic plot is the relationship between the father, Umrao Singh and the artist-daughter, Amrita (1913-41).Vivan Sundaram was born in Shimla in 1943. He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda, and at The Slade School, London, in the 1960s. He returned to India in 1970 and continued his painting. Since 1990 he has turned to making artworks as sculpture, installation, photography and video. Vivan, himself a member of the Sher-Gil family, has been engaged with the Sher-Gil project over a thirty-year period, as curator, editor, archivist. Re-take of 'Amrita', a series of digital photomontages made in 2001, has been exhibited in museums and galleries in India and abroad. Vivan has also collaborated with Kumar Shahani on the script for a proposed film on Amrita Sher-Gil.Revelling in the multitude of meanings inherent in his digitalized photomontages and his writing, the artist assembles his cast of characters, all close family members, each one singled out for his or her unique history, and repositions them in a fictive composition. The design and layout certainly culls from the best traditions of art book publications.The Art News Magazine of India

Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil

Author: Yashodhara Dalmia

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 8184759215

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Beautiful and brilliant, Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms, scandalizing the staid society of her times with her love affairs and unconventional ways. In this fascinating biography, art historian Yashodhara Dalmia paints a compelling portrait of the artist who, when she died in 1941 at the age of twenty-eight, left behind a body of work that establishes her as one of the foremost artists of the century and an eloquent symbol of the fusion between the East and the West

Critical Landscapes
Critical Landscapes

Author: Kirsten J Swenson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0520285484

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From Francis AlØs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space. Their work pivots around a set of evolving questions: In what ways is land, formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? Editors Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson bring together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, Critical Landscapes skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena. This cross-disciplinary collection is destined to be an essential reference not only within the fields of art and art history, but also across those of cultural geography, architecture and urban planning, environmental history, and landscape studies.

Art and Emergency
Art and Emergency

Author: Emilia Terracciano

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 178673270X

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During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Emilia Terracciano traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India; she explores catastrophic turning points in the history of twentieth-century India, via the art works which emerged from them. Art and Emergency reveals how the suspended, diagonal, fugitive lines of Nasreen Mohamedi's abstract compositions echo Partition's traumatic legacy; how the theatrical choreographies of Sunil Janah's photographs document desperate famine; and how Gaganendranath Tagore's lithographs respond to the wake of massacre. Making an innovative, important intervention into current debates on visual culture in South Asia, this book also furthers our understanding of the history of modernism.

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Author: Jodi Throckmorton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0520285697

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the San Jose Museum of Art, California, February 5-August 2, 2015 and the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas, September 12-December 15, 2015.