The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore. Debashish Banerji

The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore



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Language: English
Page: 228
ISBN: 8132102398, 9788132102397

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Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) is recognized in mainstream histories as the founder of a 'national' school of early 20th c. Indian painting, known more commonly today as "the Bengal School." The 'national' basis of this art, in its turn, has been read by many modern scholars as derived from Orientalist constructions of an Indian art history by figures such as E.B. Havell (1861-1934) and Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947). In this work, I have argued against such a perception, drawing a distinction between stereotypical and alternate forms of cultural nationalism in the process. My contention is that the central concern in the art of Abanindranath Tagore is not the normalization of nationalist or orientalist ideologies, but a critical engagement with post-Enlightenment modernity as the underlying paradigm behind colonialism and nationalism, anticipating the objectification and fragmentation implicit in its order and countering these with a seeking, on the one hand, for transcendence or individual autonomy and on the other, a creative communitarian intersubjectivity.

The work thus carries a theory of alternative nationalism based on a theory of agency and subjectivity and a different approach to history. The approach ot history adapts the New Histroricism of Stephen Greenblatt and others of this school, in seeing creative agency as a performative aspect of an epistemic process of becoming. Thus the work of art and the life of the artist spill into and are carried in the waves of a milieu and an epoch, participating in their problematics. All history is fictional, but instead of either arbitrary or ideological fictions, I have attempted to write a history baased on what may be called an empirical subjectivism. The theory of agency this implies situates the subject in the intersecting lived and imagined discourses of locality, regionality, nationality, transnationality and internationality and derives a politics of hybridity and worlding based on this.



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