{"product_id":"the-art-of-secularism-the-cultural-politics-of-modernist-art-in-contemporary-india-hardcover-1","title":"The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarin Zitzewitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Secularism\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonly associated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relationships between modernism, national culture, secularism and modernity that had been built since India's independence in 1947. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Secularism\u003c\/em\u003e describes how four renowned artists--M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar--developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. Combining close readings of these artists' work with ethnography of the art worlds of Mumbai and Vadodara, Karin Zitzewitz describes both the everyday forms of cosmopolitanism in the Indian art world and the increasing vulnerability of art world spaces to cultural regulation. She also presents the shifting conditions of the production and exhibition of art within the particularly urgent, varied, and sophisticated public debates about secularism in India, in which artists have been increasingly prominent interlocutors.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarin Zitzewitz\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Michigan State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.5 x 6.89 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46033393352901,"sku":"9780199335411","price":102.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/n0OgK0LaRZ9780199335411_1dac7664-e027-437d-adc8-688b4e1bd7b1.webp?v=1775411540","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-art-of-secularism-the-cultural-politics-of-modernist-art-in-contemporary-india-hardcover-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}