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Subversion and Subsidy Contemporary Art and Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9781905422715, ISBN: HB: 9781905422708, Seagull Books, November 2008
240 pp., 18.6x15.2 cm
Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themsel...
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Correspondence Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: PB: 9780857425850, ISBN: HB: 9781905422913, Seagull Books, November 2008
390 pp., 21.3x19.6 cm
Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for ar...
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Theatre of Roots Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage
ISBN: PB: 9781905422760, ISBN: HB: 9781905422753, Seagull Books, November 2008
432 pp., 23x15.6 cm, 24 halftones
After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an "Indian" theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their "roots" in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, p...
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Conversations with My Father, Adonis
ISBN: HB: 9781905422906, Seagull Books, October 2008
232 pp., 19.4x14.8 cm
Artist meets writer; young woman meets older man; daughter meets father. All these encounters are played out in the arresting conversations between the artist Ninar Esper (b. 1971) and the father she hardly knew, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (b. 1...
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Duties and Delights The Life of a Go-Between
ISBN: HB: 9781905422890, Seagull Books, October 2008
424 pp., 19x15.7 cm
Tzvetan Todorov is one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Beyond his work in cultural and literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Todorov's influence is extraordinarily far-reaching specifically because of the clarity of his writing and his r...
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Anthropology in the East Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9781905422784, ISBN: HB: 9781905422777, Seagull Books, September 2008
568 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm
Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropolog...
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Bells of Change Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422487, Seagull Books, September 2008
240 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 13 halftones
This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. "Bells of Change" traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to...
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Time Treks The Uncertain Future of Old and New Despotisms
ISBN: PB: 9781905422814, ISBN: HB: 9781905422791, Seagull Books, September 2008
228 pp., 21x14 cm
In this collection of essays, Ashis Nandy uses the metaphor of the future – imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come – to redefine the present. Nandy's effort is to demonstrate that, in a world incre...
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Of Matters Modern The Experience of Modernity in Colonial and Post-colonial South Asia
ISBN: PB: 9781905422623, ISBN: HB: 9781905422616, Seagull Books, August 2008
402 pp., 23x15.6 cm
"Of Matters Modern" analyses the experience of modernity in South Asia. Arguing that South Asia's experience of modernity has to be understood in a global context, the book explores a wide range of topics: the emergence of "Assam Fever" in colonial d...
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Correspondence Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
ISBN: HB: 9781905422678, Seagull Books, June 2008
312 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm
In the autumn of 1924, just before Andre Breton published the "Manifeste du surrealisme", two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliotheque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in et...
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