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082			_a954.05 KAP-G
100			_aKapur, Geeta
245			_aWhen was modernism : _bessays on contemporary cultural practice in India / _cGeeta Kapur
260			_aIndia _bTulika Books _c2000
300			_a439 p.
365			_aINR _b1200.00
500			_aA commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and Artworks and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section Frames of Reference formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avant-garde. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.
650			_a1900-1999
650			_aArt, India 20th century
650			_aCivilization
650			_aModernism (Art) India
650			_aMotion pictures India
999			_c92338 _d92338