: the many temporalities of the Festival of India Rebecca M Brown creator Rebecca M Brown text Art -- Exhibition techniques. Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017 monographic eng

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xvi,211 Pages ;26 cm 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. 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. /Rebecca M Brown Time and art 700.9540 BRO 9780295741987 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 190923 20191122150207.0