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Documenting Industry

Photography, Aesthetics and Labor in India

Herausgeber: Roychoudhuri, Ranu; M. Brown, Rebecca

Beschreibung

This volume engages with the image of the labouring body against monumental machines, dams, and infrastructure and the ways in which photography engages with strands of modernist aesthetics to support new modes of seeing the changing industrial landscape and the human body.

Autor

Ranu Roychoudhuri is Associate Professor in the Performing and Visual Arts division in the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University. She works on modern and contemporary art in South Asia with an emphasis on photography, intellectual histories of art, and art historiography. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and art magazines, curated shows for private and public institutions, and taught in the US and Indian higher education institutions. Rebecca M. Brown is Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Her research engages in the history of art, architecture, and visual culture of South Asia and its diasporas from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her publications focus on the British colonial era, India's anti-colonial movement, art after India's independence, the politics of display in the long 1980s, K. C. S. Paniker's language of painting, and the work of Dayanita Singh, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Rina Banerjee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 194mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781032487816
• ISBN-10: 103248781X
• Artikelnr.: 71267812