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Beyond appearances? : visual practices and ideologies in modern India /

by Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contributions to Indian sociology. 10Occasional studies. Publisher: New Delhi : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003Description: xxix, 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0761997563.Subject(s): Arts, Indic -- 20th century | Nationalism and art -- IndiaOnline resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
11. The realm of the visual: Agency and modern civil society / Sandria B. Freitag.
Introduction / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- 1. Mechanical reproduction and the world of the colonial artist / Partha Mitter -- 2. More than meets the eye: The circulation of images and the embodiment of value / Kajri Jain -- 3. Evolving a monkey: Hanuman, poster art and postcolonial anxiety / Philip Lutgendorf -- 4. 'A secret of their own country': Or, how Indian nationalism made itself irrefutable / Christopher Pinney -- 5. Visualising India's geo-body: Globes, maps, bodyscapes / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- 6. 'Unity in diversity?' Dilemmas of nationhood in Indian calendar art / Patricia Uberoi -- 7. Moving pictures: The postcolonial state and visual representations of India / Srirupa Roy -- 8. Hindutva intervisuality: Videos and the politics of representation / Christiane Brosius -- 9. Penetrating gazes: The poetics of sight and visual display in popular Indian cinema / Woodman Taylor -- 10. Merchant houses as spectacles of modernity in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu / Anne Hardgrove.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

11. The realm of the visual: Agency and modern civil society / Sandria B. Freitag.

Introduction / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- 1. Mechanical reproduction and the world of the colonial artist / Partha Mitter -- 2. More than meets the eye: The circulation of images and the embodiment of value / Kajri Jain -- 3. Evolving a monkey: Hanuman, poster art and postcolonial anxiety / Philip Lutgendorf -- 4. 'A secret of their own country': Or, how Indian nationalism made itself irrefutable / Christopher Pinney -- 5. Visualising India's geo-body: Globes, maps, bodyscapes / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- 6. 'Unity in diversity?' Dilemmas of nationhood in Indian calendar art / Patricia Uberoi -- 7. Moving pictures: The postcolonial state and visual representations of India / Srirupa Roy -- 8. Hindutva intervisuality: Videos and the politics of representation / Christiane Brosius -- 9. Penetrating gazes: The poetics of sight and visual display in popular Indian cinema / Woodman Taylor -- 10. Merchant houses as spectacles of modernity in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu / Anne Hardgrove.

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