TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rebecca M Brown
AU  - Rebecca M Brown
TI  - Displaying time : : the many temporalities of the Festival of India
SN  - 9780295741987
U1  - 700.9540 BRO 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Seattle 
PB  - : University of Washington Press
KW  - Time and art
KW  - Art -- Exhibition techniques
N1  - 	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
N2  - 	
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
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