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Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (Global South Asia)

Rebecca M. Brown
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Description:From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves?these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America's image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists.?Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyses a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (Global South Asia). To get started finding Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (Global South Asia), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Rebecca M. Brown
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Description: From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter's wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet's wooden hooves?these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America's image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists.?Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyses a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (Global South Asia). To get started finding Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India (Global South Asia), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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