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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd The Alternate Nation Of Abanindranath Tagore by Debashish Banerji
The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of a national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. It categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed as part of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of nationalist or orientalist principles, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community, geared toward the fashioning of an alternate nation, resistant to the stereotyping identity formation of the nation-state. It also establishes that his artembedded in communitarian practices like kirtan, ālponā, pet-naming, syncretism and storytelling through oral allegoriessought a dialogic social identity within the inter-subjective contexts of locality, regionality, nationality and trans-nationality.
This book is well-illustrated with many of Abanindranaths creations. It will be a rich reference work for students, researchers and academics from various subject areas such as arts and humanities, sociology and cultural studies, and would be precious for artists, art collectors, connoisseurs, museums and art galleries.