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040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a709.04074 _bSu72v
100			_aSundaram, Vivan
245			_aVivan Sundaram: history project _ba site-specific installation, Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, 1998 _cVivan Sundaram
260			_bTulika Books _c2017 _aNew Delhi
300			_a309p
520			_aThis 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 History Project, 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.
650			_aSundaram Vivan -- Exhibitions
650			_aInstallations (Art)
942			_cBK
999			_c559940 _d559940