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In the name of the goddess : the Durga pujas of contemporary Kolkata by Tapati Guha Thakurta is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Each year, Kolkata's Durga Puja scales new heights as the most spectacular and extravagant event in the city's calendar. From the turn of the twenty-first century, the festival has taken on a particular artistic dispensation that is unique to the contemporary city, demanding a new order of attention and analysis. Based on field-research conducted between 2002 and 2012, this book unravels the anatomy of this newly-congured 'art' event, by tracking the new production processes, the mounting trends of publicity and sponsorship as well as the practices of mass spectatorship that make for the transformed visual culture of the festival. This new visual aesthetic, it is argued, has become the most important marker of the rapidly mutating identity of today's Durga Puja in Kolkata, bringing into the fray new categories of artists and designers, new genres of public art, and new spaces for art production and reception in the city. The book's central concern lies in conceptualizing a specically contemporary and artistic history of the urban festival. In keeping with its title, the book examines the diversity of images and practices - from the consumerist spectacle and the bonanza of awards to
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tapati Guha Thakurta
- Publisher
- Primus Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789384082468
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, History, History & Criticism
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14