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Re-use-the art and politics of integration and anxiety / edited by Julia A.B. Hegewald, Subrata K. Mitra.

Contributor(s): Hegewald, Julia A. B [Editor] | Mitra, Subrata Kumar, , 1949- [Editor].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Sage Publications, 2012Description: xix, 342 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9788132106555.Subject(s): Historic preservation -- India Politics and culture -- India Social change -- South Asia Historic preservation -- Political aspects -- India Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- India Historic buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- India Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- India Art and state -- India India -- Cultural policy India -- Religious life and customsDDC classification: 363.690954 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Art and Politics : The Dialectics of Duality, Affinity and Confluence / Julia A.B. Hegewald and Subrata K. Mitra -- Towards a Theory of Re-use : Ruin, Retro and Fake Versus Improvement, Innovation and Integration / Julia A.B. Hegewald -- The Past in the Present : Temple Conversions in Karnataka and Appropriation and Re-use in Orissa / Julia A.B. Hegewald and Subrata K. Mitra -- Chola and Neo-Chola Temple Architecture in and around Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu / George Michell -- Indian Jewellery and Nineteenth Century Britain : Evolving Patterns of Re-use / Nick Barnard -- Re-use in the Yakshagana Theatre of Coastal Karnataka / Katrin Binder -- Indian Painting at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century : Modernism and Re-use of Ancient Pictorial Traditions / Tiziana Lorenzetti -- Politics of Art and the Art of Politics : Re-use of "Tribal" Arts and Artefacts in Modern Orissa / Prasanna K. Nayak -- Another Form of Re-use : Institutional Continuity and "Indigenisation" of Westminster Parliamentarism and Western Party Politics in Post-colonial India / Clemens Spiess -- Myth, Idea, Dream and Vision : Nehru's Discovery of India / Jivanta Schöttli -- Use and Re-use of "Pakistan" in the Indian Muslim Press (1932-47) / Thierry DiCostanzo -- Buddhism and Collective Emancipation in Modern India : B.R. Ambedkar's Re-use of the Buddha's Dharma in the Dalit Movement / Edward A. Rodrigues -- "The Jain Way of Life" : Modern Re-use and Reinterpretation of Ancient Jain Concepts / Sabine Scholz -- Icons, Nations and Re-use : Marianne, France and Bharat Mata, India / Subrata K. Mitra and Lion König -- Glossary.
Summary: Presents a novel approach to understanding the relationship between the past and the present using the unique concept of re-use, wherein elements from the past are strategically adapted into the present, and thus become part of a new modernity.
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Art and Politics : The Dialectics of Duality, Affinity and Confluence / Julia A.B. Hegewald and Subrata K. Mitra --
Towards a Theory of Re-use : Ruin, Retro and Fake Versus Improvement, Innovation and Integration / Julia A.B. Hegewald --
The Past in the Present : Temple Conversions in Karnataka and Appropriation and Re-use in Orissa / Julia A.B. Hegewald and Subrata K. Mitra --
Chola and Neo-Chola Temple Architecture in and around Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu / George Michell --
Indian Jewellery and Nineteenth Century Britain : Evolving Patterns of Re-use / Nick Barnard --
Re-use in the Yakshagana Theatre of Coastal Karnataka / Katrin Binder --
Indian Painting at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century : Modernism and Re-use of Ancient Pictorial Traditions / Tiziana Lorenzetti --
Politics of Art and the Art of Politics : Re-use of "Tribal" Arts and Artefacts in Modern Orissa / Prasanna K. Nayak --
Another Form of Re-use : Institutional Continuity and "Indigenisation" of Westminster Parliamentarism and Western Party Politics in Post-colonial India / Clemens Spiess --
Myth, Idea, Dream and Vision : Nehru's Discovery of India / Jivanta Schöttli --
Use and Re-use of "Pakistan" in the Indian Muslim Press (1932-47) / Thierry DiCostanzo --
Buddhism and Collective Emancipation in Modern India : B.R. Ambedkar's Re-use of the Buddha's Dharma in the Dalit Movement / Edward A. Rodrigues --
"The Jain Way of Life" : Modern Re-use and Reinterpretation of Ancient Jain Concepts / Sabine Scholz --
Icons, Nations and Re-use : Marianne, France and Bharat Mata, India / Subrata K. Mitra and Lion König --
Glossary.

Presents a novel approach to understanding the relationship between the past and the present using the unique concept of re-use, wherein elements from the past are strategically adapted into the present, and thus become part of a new modernity.

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