TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patel,Alpesh Kantilal
TI  - Productive failure: writing queer transnational South Asian art histories 
T2  - Rethinking art's histories
SN  - 9781784992545
AV  - NX575.8 .P38 2017
U1  - 709.54 P272P 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Art
KW  - South Asia
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Art and race
KW  - Homosexuality and art
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index; Introduction: towards creolizing transnational South Asian art histories -- Authorship: Anish Kapoor as British/Asian/artist -- Form: queer zen -- Subject matter: writing as a racial pharmakon -- Space/site: writing queer feminist transnational South Asian art histories -- 'Practice-led': producing art, producing art history -- Affect belonging
N2  - This monograph sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. I also examine 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. As the book progresses, art historical 'writing' includes a range of practice-led forms, such as curating exhibitions or my affective engagement with visual culture. Overall, I suggest methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history
ER  -