How Secular Is Art?

How Secular Is Art?

On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia

Zamindar, Vazira; Guha-Thakurta, Tapati

Cambridge University Press

05/2024

Mole

Inglês

9781009380478

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List of Images; 1. Introduction Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Vazira Zamindar; Part I. Secularity and Its Art: 2. Indian Secularism and Art in a Time of Crisis Akeel Bilgrami; 3. Art and Secularism in Contemporary India: A Question of Method Karin Zitzewitz; 4. In Which Contemporary Indian Iconopraxis Devours Some Sacred Cows of Art History Kajri Jain; Part II. Boundaries of Secular Nationalism: 5. Displacements of Secularity: Decapitations and Their Histories Vazira Zamindar; 6. Modern Art and East Pakistan: Drawing from the Limits Sanjukta Sunderason; 7. Making Place for People? Geeta Kapur, Secular Nationalism, and 'Indian' Art Zehra Jumabhoy; Part III. Art and Its Gods: 8. Shivaji's Portrait and the Practice of Art History Holly Shaffer; 9. Can a Festival of a Goddess Be 'Secular'? Tapati Guha-Thakurta; 10. A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India Sumathi Ramaswamy; Part IV. Architectures of Devotion: 11. Re-enchanting Mughal Architecture: A Critique of the Secular Disenchantment of India's Past Santhi Kavuri-Bauer; 12. Rebuilding Konarak in the Twentieth Century: Legacies of Colonial Archaeology and Discourses of Inclusivity in Gwalior's Birla Temple Tamara Sears; 13. For the Love of God: Conservation as Devotion in Tamil Nadu Kavita Singh; About the Contributors; Index.