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Primitive accumulation : the political economy of indigenous art in postcolonial India
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Varma, Rashmi (2013) Primitive accumulation : the political economy of indigenous art in postcolonial India. Third Text, Volume 27 (Number 6). pp. 748-761. doi:10.1080/09528822.2013.857902
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2013.857902
Abstract
This article examines the emergence of indigenous art in postcolonial India as a contradictory process and phenomenon. The article traces the career of Gond art, from its discovery in the jungles of central India to its state institutionalization and its presence in the contemporary international art scene. Through the example of the life and the untimely death of Jangarh Singh Singh, arguably the first Gond painter, the article interrogates the postcolonial Indian state's relationship to indigeneity and indigenous art, and the social and economic conditions of the production, circulation and accumulation of this art in the world. Using the Marxist concept of Primitive Accumulation as an analytical framework, the article makes a case for Gond art to be understood as providing allegories of global capitalism's desecration of tribal lands and culture, but also as engaging in a critique of, and providing resistance to, the ongoing accumulation through dispossession.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Indigenous art -- India -- History -- 20th century, Art, Indic -- 20th century, Art, Indic -- 21st century, Indigenous art -- Economic aspects -- India, Art, Indic -- Economic aspects | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Third Text | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| ISSN: | 0952-8822 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 27 | ||||
| Number: | Number 6 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 748-761 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09528822.2013.857902 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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