Displaying time
Rebecca M Brown
Displaying time : the many temporalities of the Festival of India /Rebecca M Brown - Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017. - xvi,211 Pages ;26 cm
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.
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 Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when Americas image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. "Displaying Time" unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.
9780295741987
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
Time and art
Art -- Exhibition techniques.
700.9540 BRO
Displaying time : the many temporalities of the Festival of India /Rebecca M Brown - Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017. - xvi,211 Pages ;26 cm
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.
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 Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when Americas image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. "Displaying Time" unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.
9780295741987
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
Time and art
Art -- Exhibition techniques.
700.9540 BRO
