Tasveerghar: The Best of Tasveerghar

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This book brings to the reader the best of Tasveerghar, a trans-national digital network of South-Asian popular visual culture. A visual treat, the book is a collection of the popular forms of art which include posters, calendar art pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings advertisement and other forms of street and bazaar art. Presenting other kinds of art, the kinds that exist outside art-galleries Tasveerghar provides an insight into the throbbing social and performative life of images, the techniques of visuality of street art and the histories, everyday lives and voices of the producers, disseminators and consumers of these kinds of popular art.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sumathi Ramaswamy

Sumathi Ramaswamy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; editor of Beyond Appearances; Visual Practices, and Ideologies in Modern India (2003); and author of Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (1997).

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Title
Tasveerghar: The Best of Tasveerghar
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
Yoda Press, 2012
Length
300p.
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