Aesthetics in India: Transitions and Transformations

By: V.S. Sreenath

During the classical period, aesthetics was an inward-facing field, not concerned with the socioeconomic reality of everyday life. However, art has always flourished across societies as a direct product of the very realities of caste, class, and gender that aesthetics long ignored. As a result, aesthetics as a keyword in the humanities stands at a crossroads today. Eschewing definitions, this volume attempts to explore what aesthetics can be, to deploy the dissipation of classical aesthetics into a reconstituted toolkit of critical terms--anger, shock, beauty, form, praxis, affect.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354424023
• ISBN13: 9789354424021
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: United Nations
• Length: 296 Pages