{"product_id":"9781526113153","title":"Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories","description":"This monograph sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. I also examine 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. As the book progresses, art historical 'writing' includes a range of practice-led forms, such as curating exhibitions or my affective engagement with visual culture. Overall, I suggest methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147319066864,"sku":"9781526113153","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781526113153_p0.jpg?v=1763738843","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781526113153","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}