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A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that range from interpretive prose-pieces to theoretical expositions, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantagepoint to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world. The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and Art Work and Film/narratives, analyse the works of a ...
This reader is being published by sahmat in conjunction with the symposium 'Iconography Now: Rewriting Art History?' The immediate provocation for both have been the most recent attacks on MF Husain, which started as an internet campaign in the US in October 2005. There is a sense of Deja vu here, as we have been down this road before. For most of us, who thought that the change in regime two years ago heralded the end of the carefully planned, communal assaults ...