Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
by Jain, Kajri
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xii, 434 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Calendar art appears in all manner of contexts in India: in chic elite living rooms, middle-class kitchens, urban slums, and village huts. This book examines the power that calendar art wields in Indian mass culture, arguing that its meanings derive as much from the production and circulation of the images as from their visual features." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: calendar art as an object of knowledge; Genealogy; Vernacularizing capitalism: Sivakasi and its circuits; When the gods go to market; Naturalizing the popular; Economy; The sacred icon in the age of the work of art and mechanical reproduction; The circulation of images and the embodiment of value; Efficacy; The efficacious image and the sacralization of modernity; Flexing the canon.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.
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- Title
- Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
- Author
- Jain, Kajri
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0822339269
- ISBN 13
- 9780822339267
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Place of Publication
- Durham, NC
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 4to
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- Genre & Subject / Religious / Hindu; Art Market; Asian / Indian & South Asian;
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