{"product_id":"vivan-sundaram-homi-bhabha-9789382381945","title":"Vivan Sundaram: History Project","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India's most innovative artists, located his \u003ci\u003eHistory Project\u003c\/i\u003e, marking fifty years of Indian independence, in a hugely visited and popular public institution, the Victoria Memorial and Museum in Kolkata. The artist's choice of setting was by way of a challenge: to 'occupy' an imperial edifice and change its orientation; to reflect India's struggle for independence and the emerging nation's stake in modernity through an anachronistic mirror; and to engage with postcolonial contradictions through recursive narration. It needed an artwork scaled to the proportion of these issues and the book examines how Sundaram met this challenge. His ideology and aesthetic, his formal choices and method, are critically investigated in a series of essays contributed by distinguished authors: cultural theorists, art and architectural historians. The book carries abundant, well-annotated illustrations of the complex installation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Homi Bhabha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9382381945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789382381945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tulika Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.40h x 8.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Homi Bhabha","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45477170708735,"sku":"9789382381945","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ebaad5a-104c-4615-907e-eadf88e73163.jpg?v=1715919250","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vivan-sundaram-homi-bhabha-9789382381945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}