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020			_a9780199488841
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100			_aMaheshwari, Malvika
245			_aArt attacks : violence and offence-taking in India / _cMalvika Maheshwari
260			_aIndia _bOxford University Press _c2019
300			_a372 p.
365			_aINR _b1195.00
500			_aSince the end of the 1980s in India, self-styled representatives of a variety of ascriptive groups—religious, caste, regional, and linguistic—have been routinely damaging artworks, disrupting their exhibition, and threatening and assaulting artists and their supporters. Often, these acts are claimed to be a protest against allegedly ‘hurtful’ or ‘offensive’ artworks, wherein its regularity and brazenness has led to an intensifying sense of fear, frustration, and anger within the art world. Art Attacks tells the story of this phenomenon and maps the concrete political transformations that have informed the dynamic unfolding of violent attacks on artists. Based on extensive interactions with offence-takers, assailants, and artists, the author argues that these attacks are not simply ‘anti-democratic’ but are dependent in perverse ways on the very logics of democracy’s functioning in India. At the same time, they have been contained, at least until now, by this very democratic system, which has prevented the spiralling of attacks into an outright condition of art plunder.
650			_aPolitical violence
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aArt and society