In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
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In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
Author: Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Brand: Primus Books
Edition: 1
Binding: hardcover
Number Of Pages: 408
Release Date: 01-01-2015
Part Number: NAL970
Details: The book’s central concern lies in conceptualizing a specically contemporary and artistic history of the urban festival. In keeping with its title, the book examines the diversity of images and practices – from the consumerist spectacle and the bonanza of awards to the eorescence of public installations and art and craft productions – that unfurls in this season ‘in the name of the goddess’. While proling the Durga Pujas as Kolkata’s biggest public art event, the book also addresses the ambivalence of the designations of ‘art’ and ‘artist’ in this eld of production and viewership. One of the main aims of this study has been to lay open the claims of ‘art’ in this festival both as a set of insistent projections as well as a mesh of incomplete formations. The new artistic nomenclature of the festival, it is shown, is not easily secured and has to struggle to assert itself within the body of the religious event and the ephemeral mass spectacle.
EAN: 9789384082468
Package Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
