{"product_id":"speech-acts-hardcover-1","title":"Speech Acts - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeeta Kapur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt critic and curator Geeta Kapur's oeuvre engages with modernity, emphasizing alongside the need to identify and polemicize the contradictions that undergird it. She traverses a situated discourse across categories such as the Third World, the postcolonial and the global South. Speech Acts contains select interviews that annotate Kapur's contributions to modern Indian art criticism and trace her interrogations of the contemporary through various historical conjunctures. It also includes texts by her that enrich as well as complicate the relationship between art, subjectivity and the historical context. These writings and exchanges range from manifesto-like to the contemplative, offering an overview of a critic's praxis through art-thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeeta Kapur is a critic and curator. Her essays are widely anthologized; her books include \u003ci\u003eContemporary Indian Artists\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eWhen Was Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eCritic's Compass: Navigating Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming 2023), besides \u003ci\u003eSpeech Acts\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). She was a founder-editor of Journal of Arts and Ideas, and advisory board member of Third Text and Marg. Curatorial projects include: \u003ci\u003e'Dispossession'\u003c\/i\u003e, Johannesburg Biennale (1995); \u003ci\u003e'Bombay\/Mumbai'\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCentury City\u003c\/i\u003e, Tate Modern (co-curation, 2001); \u003ci\u003e'subTerrain', House of World Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e, Berlin (2003); \u003ci\u003e'Aesthetic Bind', \u003c\/i\u003e Chemould, Mumbai (five exhibitions, 2013-14).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403415339229,"sku":"9788195639274","price":90.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/tfIQ1ud9ky9788195639274_f4e21305-96ba-4764-b94f-6bffbd44c8c2.webp?v=1771100381","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/speech-acts-hardcover-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}