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Adrian Margaret Smith Piper
Anish Kapoor
Author_Alpesh Kantilal Patel
belongingness
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Curry Mile
Cy Twombly
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Kehinde Wiley
Mario Pfeifer
Natvar Bhavsar
productive failure
queer feminism
queer zen
South Asian art histories
South Asian women
Stephen Dean
transnational art histories
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- ISBN 9781784992545
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. The author examines 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. This book also provides original commentary on how queer theory can deconstruct and provide new approaches for writing art history. Overall, this title provides methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history.
Alpesh Kantilal Patel is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at Florida International University, Miami
