Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories

ISBN-13: 9781784992545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Opis

This monograph 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. I also examine 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. As the book progresses, art historical 'writing' includes a range of practice-led forms, such as curating exhibitions or my affective engagement with visual culture. Overall, I suggest 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.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Towards creolising transnational South Asian art histories
2 Authorship: Anish Kapoor as British/Asian/artist
3 Form: queer zen
4 Subject matter: writing as a racial pharmakon
5 Space/site: writing queer feminist transnational South Asian art histories
6 Practice-led: producing art, producing art history
7 Affect: belonging
Afterword: Toward writing indigenous transnational South Asian art histories
Index