Displaying time : the many temporalities of the Festival of India
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Brown Rebecca M. ;
- Editeurs : Seattle [Wash.] University of Washington Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2017
- ISBN : 978-0-295-99994-4, 978-0-295-74198-7
- Sujets : Temps -- Dans l'art, Expositions artistiques, Festival of India in the United States, Festival of India
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI, 211 p., [16] p. de pl., : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 26 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Global South Asia
Notes
Existe aussi en version électronique ; Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. 185-204. Index
Résumé
La 4e de couv. indique : 'From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potters wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppets wooden hoovesthese 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 Americas 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 analyzes 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.'