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020			_a9780199488841
028			_a: Technical Bureau _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: TB3469 _d: 11/2/2026
082			_a364.1 MAH
100			_aMaheshwari, Malvika.
245			_aArt attacks _b: violence and offence taking in India. _c/ Malvika Maheshwari.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Oxford University Press _c , 2019.
300			_axii, 372p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b836.50
520			_aSince the end of the 1980s in India, self-styled representatives of a variety of ascriptive groups—religious, caste, regional, and linguistic—have been routinely damaging artworks, disrupting their exhibition, and threatening and assaulting artists and their supporters. Often, these acts are claimed to be a protest against allegedly ‘hurtful’ or ‘offensive’ artworks, wherein its regularity and brazenness has led to an intensifying sense of fear, frustration, and anger within the art world..Art Attacks tells the story of this phenomenon and maps the concrete political transformations that have informed the dynamic unfolding of violent attacks on artists. Based on extensive interactions with offence-takers, assailants, and artists, the author argues that these attacks are not simply ‘anti-democratic’ but are dependent in perverse ways on the very logics of democracy’s functioning in India. At the same time, they have been contained, at least until now, by this very democratic system, which has prevented the spiralling of attacks into an outright condition of art plunder.
650			_aFreedom of speech - Offence
650			_aCriminalization
650			_aLiberal democracy
700			_aMalvika Maheshwari
942			_cBOOK
999			_c67092 _d67092