Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India

by Jisha Menon

Book Overview

Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of the Indian economy. Taking the once idyllic "garden city" of Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, the book explores how artists across India and beyond foreground neoliberalism as a "structure of feeling" permeating aesthetics, selfhood, and everyday life.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144050
• ISBN13: 9780810144057
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"