Infrastructure and Form
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Infrastructure and Form

The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Infrastructure and Form

The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008

About this book

In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. In response to the liberalization of India's economy, art was cultivated by a booming market as well as by new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots and transnational connections. The result was an unprecedented efflorescence of contemporary art and growth of a network of institutions radiating out from India. Among the first studies of contemporary South Asian art, Infrastructure and Form engages with sixteen of India's leading contemporary artists and art collectives to examine what made this development possible. Karin Zitzewitz articulates the connections among formal trajectories of medium and material, curatorial frames and networks of circulation, and the changing conditions of everyday life after economic liberalization. By untangling the complex interactions of infrastructure and form, the book offers a discussion of the barriers and conduits that continue to shape global contemporary art and its relationship to capital more broadly.

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Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Asian Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Feminist Networks, New Biennials, and Performance
  8. 2. Painting and the Image Condition at the Millennium
  9. 3. Materiality, Ephemerality, Haptics
  10. 4. Language, the Documentary, and Art in a Discursive Mode
  11. 5. Infrastructure, Collaboration, and the Cut
  12. Conclusion: Infrastructure Is Not (Only) a Metaphor
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. List of Illustrations
  16. Index