Desecration and the politics of ‘image pollution’: Ambedkar statues and the ‘sculptural encounter’ in India
Desecration and the politics of ‘image pollution’: Ambedkar statues and the ‘sculptural encounter’ in India
dc.contributor.author | Nayar, Pramod K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-27T01:51:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-27T01:51:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-02 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay examines the culture of statue-desecration in contemporary India. The focus is the desecration of Ambedkar statues. The first section argues that the installation of Ambedkar statues is a process of sacralising, reconfiguring public histories and modernities, while instituting a new iconicity. In section two, the essay moves on to examining the ‘profane aesthetics’ of desecration. This includes studying the emergence of a ‘counter-spectacle’ in the political culture jamming of desecration, the creation of a culture of image pollution and the making of an affrontier. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Celebrity Studies. v.11(1) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 19392397 | |
dc.identifier.uri | 10.1080/19392397.2020.1704389 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704389 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4198 | |
dc.subject | B.R. Ambedkar | |
dc.subject | desecration | |
dc.subject | profane aesthetics | |
dc.subject | public modernity | |
dc.subject | statues | |
dc.title | Desecration and the politics of ‘image pollution’: Ambedkar statues and the ‘sculptural encounter’ in India | |
dc.type | Journal. Article | |
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