Each year, Kolkata's Durga Puja scales new heights as the most spectacular and extravagant event in the city's calendar. From the turn of the twenty-first century, the festival has taken on a particular artistic dispensation that is unique to the contemporary city, demanding a new order of attention and analysis. The book's central concern lies in conceptualizing a specifically contemporary and artistic history of the urban festival.

ISBN 13: 9789384082468

ISBN 10: 9384082465

Year: 2015

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: xii+390p., full of col. illus., gloss., bib., ind., 29cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): Fine Arts, Sociology