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Embrace our rivers : public art and ecology in India / edited by Ravi Agarwal, Florian Matzner, Helmut Schippert. - 213 pages color illustrations ; 27 cm

Published to accompany exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India, February 2-March 4, 2018.
TB433/2019-20
Rs.1200/-

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).

ISBN: 9783735604675

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
2000-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ecology in art--Exhibitions.
Rivers in art
Public art--India
Installations (Art)--21st century

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Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Exhibition catalogs.

Dewey Class. No.: 700.411 EMB