Beyond appearances? : visual practices and ideologies in modern India

Author(s)

• Ramaswamy, Sumathi

Bibliographic Information

Beyond appearances? : visual practices and ideologies in modern India

edited by Sumathi Ramaswamy

（Contributions to Indian sociology, . Occasional studies ; 10）

Sage Publications, 2003

• : hbk., US
• : hbk., India

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

`Beyond Appearances? provides a dynamic fourm for the main exponents of the anthropological turn in studies of South Asian popular visual culture, and will prove an inspiration for a generation of emerging scholars' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute A striking feature of modern-day society is the ubiquity of visuals and images in everyday life. The 11 essays in this book analyse the material and political impact of a wide array of artefacts, media, and habits with the aim of understanding the principal contours of the visual practices and ideologies that distinguish an Indian modern. Recognising the enormous power contained within images to transform and mobilise self and community, the contributors focus on a variety of visual media including fine art and calendar art, theatre and popular cinema, photography, documentary films and propaganda videos, and maps. In the process, they also examine the inter-visual dialogue between these diverse media, exploring their underlying technologies of production and modalities of circulation and exchange.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Sumathi Ramaswamy Mechanical Reproduction and the World of the Colonial Artist - Partha Mitter More Than Meets the Eye: The Circulation of Images and the Embodiment of Value - Kajri Jain Evolving a Monkey: Hanuman, Poster art and Postcolonial Anxiety - Philip Lutgendorf 'A Secret of Their Own Country': Or, How Indian Nationalism Made Itself Irrefutable - Christopher Pinney Visualising India's Geo-Body: Globes, Maps, Bodyscapes - Sumathi Ramaswamy 'Unity in Diversity'? : Dilemmas of Nationhood in Indian Calendar Art - Patricia Uberoi Moving Pictures: The Postcolonial State and Visual Representations of India - Srirupa Roy Hindutva intervisuality: Videos and the Politics of Representation - Christiane Brosius Penetrating Gazes: The Poetics of Sight and Visual Display in Popular Indian Cinema - Woodman Taylor Merchant Houses as Spectacles of Modernity in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu - Anne Hardgrove The Realm of the Visual: Agency and Modern Civil Society - Sandria B Freitag Index

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Details

• NCID: BA71145302
• ISBN:
  • 0761997563
  • 8178292041
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 412 p., [10] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NX576.A1
  • DC21 : 700/.458/09540904
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Arts, Indic -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Nationalism and art -- India
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10994118