Displaying time :: the many temporalities of the Festival of India /

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 Reag...

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1. Verfasser: Brown, Rebecca M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Global South Asia.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and index.
ISBN:9780295999951
0295999950

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