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Partisan Aesthetics
Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization
Sanjukta Sunderason

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Contents
Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization
Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations
Chapter 1: "Political Potentiality": Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism
Chapter 2: "As Agitator and Organizer": Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India
Chapter 3: "Concrete Contextuality": Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group
Chapter 4: "All the More Real for Not Being Preached": Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India
Chapter 5: "Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics": Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony