{"product_id":"displaying-time","title":"Displaying Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America’s image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. \u003ci\u003eDisplaying Time\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Rebecca M. Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614476099964,"sku":"9780295999944","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780295999944.jpg?v=1727948984","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/displaying-time","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}