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Art as Witness

Edited by : Sana Das, Parthiv Shah

9788189487706

Tulika Books 2010

Language: English

228 Pages

8 x 8 Inches

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Price INR 950.0 Price USD 47.5

Book Club Price INR 712.5 USD 35.625

About the Book

Art as Witness is a cluster of barbed writings and biting images from the underbelly of turbulent India and its neighbouring countries. Relying on the sustained work of eminent photographers and artists on rights issues in and around South Asia, and on writings by courageous activists, lawyers, journalists and social scientists, the book focuses on the terror unleashed by armies, states and courts of law, and tells the stories of brave survivors. Here, text and image are strained to their limits to convey the hopes and anguish of prisoners, death-row victims, murder-victim families, families of missing people, populations living under martial law, and displaced communities, in a world where democratic rights and freedoms are shrinking every day.

Based on Amnesty International India’s ‘Art for Activism’ project, this book hopes to strengthen global campaigns for a world without fear and torture, a world without death penalty, or disappearances and custodial violence. It hopes to reach out to a wider and more diverse readership/viewership through its parallel narrative of images as visual testimonies, and spillover references to the popular worlds of cinema, music, slogan and performance.

Sana Das

Sana Das is Founder Trustee at the Life and Liberty Foundation. She is the Course Director of a journalism course in Bangalore called ‘Archaeology of the Media’ run by the Educational Trust, Samvada. She has done her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She has been associated with Amnesty International India, the Heinrich Boll Foundation, policy research and the study of social movements.

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Parthiv Shah

Parthiv Shah is a renowned photo-artist based in Delhi, India, who has curated national and international exhibitions on art and issues of social concern. His works have been exhibited at leading world galleries including the Durban Art Gallery and Sandton Art Centre, South Africa; Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K.; Chhobi Mela, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Photo-Expo Asia-2, Bangkok, Thailand, and other places. His seminal photographs of the mill workers of western India have been published in the volume titled Working in the Mill No More. Parthiv Shah is the Founder-Director of the Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC), Delhi.

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