ISBN:
0822339269
,
0822339064
,
9780822339069
,
9780822339267
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 434 S.
,
Ill.
,
26 cm
Series Statement:
Objects/histories
DDC:
741.6820954
Keywords:
Calendar art
;
Commercial art
;
Art and popular culture
;
Gods in art
;
Idols and images in art
;
Calendar art India
;
Commercial art India
;
Art and popular culture India
;
Gods in art
;
Idols and images in art
;
Indien
;
Gebrauchsgrafik
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-425) and index
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