Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations 1
6. Introduction: Partisan Aesthetics: Configurations
7. 1. “Political Potentiality”: Jamini Roy and the Formations of Progressive Art Criticism 43
8. 2. “As Agitator and Organizer”: Socialist Realism and Artist-cadres of the Communist Party of India 85
9. 3. “Concrete Contextuality”: Realism and Its Discontents in the Art of the Calcutta Group 129
10. PART II. Postcolonial Displacements
11. 4. “All the More Real for Not Being Preached”: Forms and Futures of Socialist Art in Nehruvian India 173
12. 5. “Revolution in the Tropics, Love in the Tropics”: Arts of Displacement in the Post-colony 217
13. Postscript: Toward an Aesthetics of Decolonization 257
14. Notes 263
15. Bibliography 289
16. Index 309