Displaying time : the many temporalities of the Festival of India / Rebecca M. Brown.

From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potters wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppets wooden hoovesthese scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reag...

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Main Author: Brown, Rebecca M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Series:Global South Asia.
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Table of Contents:
  • Flickering light, fluttering textiles
  • An interruption : Derridean temporality at the Festival
  • Material transformations : clay, terracotta, trash
  • Time, interrupted : people in the gallery
  • Entrepreneurial exhibits
  • The contemporary, at a distance
  • Setting up the tent anew.