Political Aesthetics

Culture, Critique and the Everyday
Herausgeber: Virmani, Arundhati

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work seeks to highlight that an understanding of aesthetic practices is essential to the analysis of politics and political processes

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415728843
• ISBN-10: 0415728843
• Artikelnr.: 39594927

Autorenporträt

Arundhati Virmani is an historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. Her works deal with the social and political history of colonial and contemporary India, in particular the forms and mechanisms of social aggregation, symbols and rituals of national sentiment, places and objects of memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Arundhati Virmani Aesthetics in Political Culture Chapter 1.
Narrating the Nation: Murals and Tapestry in the Indian and South African
Parliaments Shirin Rai and Rachel Johnson Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of
Sacrifice in Indian Political Culture Arundhati Virmani Chapter 3. The
Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy Simonetta Falasca
Zamponi Power of Aesthetical critique Chapter 4. The Aesthetic Politics of
the Techno Movement in France 1990-2010 Jean-Christophe Sevin Chapter 5.
Aesthetics as Critique: A Photographic Inquiry into the Mafia Franco
Zecchin Chapter 6. Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in
postcolonial India Rashmi Varma The Everyday as Aesthetics Chapter 7.
Aesthetics of the Suburban Fabric: Marseilles on Foot Hendrik Sturm
Chapter 8. Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Gandhi and
Virtuosity Rebecca M. Brown Chapter 9. Pedestrian Crossings: Some
Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Judicial Spectacle Les Moran
Chapter 10. Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History Maria Tamboukou
Afterword Some Sociological Afterthoughts: Continuous vision and
rationalizations of cultural forms, secular rituals and Aesthetics
Emmanuel Pedler