Embrace our rivers : Public art and ecology in India / edited by Ravi Agarwal, Florian Matzner & Helmut Schippert.

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TextPublisher: New Delhi : Bielefeld : Speaking Tiger Publishing ; Kerber Verlag, [2018]Description: 213 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9783735604675 (paperback).

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DDC classification:

23 700.411 EMB 012772

LOC classification:

N8217.E28 E43 2018

Summary: Water contamination, air pollution, and resource scarcity?considerable environmental problems have come to threaten all large industrial nations around the world. Based on the concrete example of the South Indian city of Chennai, the exhibition project 'DAMned Art?Embrace Our Rivers' questions the possible social and political significance and function of art. The public art project in Chennai, curated by the Indian eco-activist and artist Ravi Agarwal and the German exhibition organizer Florian Matzner, is a cooperation between European and Indian artists and brings together more than a dozen future-oriented projects relating to the topic of?art and ecology.? The accompanying publication presents these fascinating art projects.00Exhibition: Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India (02.02.-04.03.2018).

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	700.411 EMB 012772 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		012772

Published to accompany exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India, February 2-March 4, 2018.

Water contamination, air pollution, and resource scarcity?considerable environmental problems have come to threaten all large industrial nations around the world. Based on the concrete example of the South Indian city of Chennai, the exhibition project 'DAMned Art?Embrace Our Rivers' questions the possible social and political significance and function of art. The public art project in Chennai, curated by the Indian eco-activist and artist Ravi Agarwal and the German exhibition organizer Florian Matzner, is a cooperation between European and Indian artists and brings together more than a dozen future-oriented projects relating to the topic of?art and ecology.? The accompanying publication presents these fascinating art projects.00Exhibition: Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India (02.02.-04.03.2018).

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