Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World

Raminder Kaur, Parul Dave-Mukherji

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000189650
• Subtopic: Art General
• Index: Social Sciences

This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the metaphysical to the political. Moving beyond art as an expression of the inner mind and invention of the individual self, the volume bridges the gap between changing perceptions of contemporary art and aesthetics, and maps globalizing currents in a number of contexts and regions.The volume includes an impressive variety of case studies offered by established leaders in the field and original and emerging scholarly talent covering areas in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Rwanda, and Germany, as well as providing transnational or diasporic perspectives. From the contradictory demands made on successful artists from the south in the global art world such as Anish Kapoor, to images of war and puppetry created by female political prisoners, the volume compels creative and political interpretations of the ever-changing and globalizing terrain of arts and aesthetics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Of Mockery and Mimicking: Gaganendranath Tagore’s Critique of Henri Bergson’s Laughter (1911)
• 3 The Return of the Aura: Anish Kapoor: The Studio and the World
• 4 The Practice of Art: An Alternative View of Contemporary Art-making in Tehran
• 5 Art under Siege: Perils and Possibilities of Aesthetic Forms in a Globalizing World
• 6 Hot Bricolage: Magical Mimesis in Modern India
• 7 Rethinking Waste: Time, Obsolescence, Diversity and Democracy
• 8 Slaps, Beatings, Laughter, Adda, Puppet Shows: Naxal Women Prisoners in Calcutta and the Art of Happiness in Captivity
• 9 Rwanda: Healing and the Aesthetics of Poetry
• 10 The Aesthetics of Diaspora: Sensual Milieus and Literary Worlds
• 11 For Love’s Sake? Changing Landscapes of Sonic and Visual Aesthetics of Weddings in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)
• 12 The Aesthetics of Pirate Modernities: Bhojpuri Cinema and the Underclasses
• 13 Intimacy Out of Place: On the Workings of Smell in an Exhibition on Human Sexuality
• 14 Consuming Culture: The Refiguration of Aesthetics in Nagaland Cultural Tourism in India’s North East
• 15 Reflections upon the Meaning of Contemporary Digital Image-making Practices in India
• 16 Reflections
• Index