{"id":34676,"date":"2022-03-15T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/sutapa-biswas-lumen\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T01:19:04","slug":"sutapa-biswas-lumen","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/sutapa-biswas-lumen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutapa Biswas: Lumen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Lumen<\/em><\/strong>, a survey of the four-decade career of British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas, accompanies two solo exhibitions of the artist\u2019s work held in 2021\u201322. Biswas emigrated from India to the UK with her family in the 1960s. Taking the long histories of colonialism together with personal memories, Biswas\u2019s art meditates on questions of migration, identity and belonging. Her practice has consistently interrogated Western tradition and discourse, pushing past absences, exclusions and limited representations to make evident the entwined histories of culture and politics. <\/p>\n<p>This publication details Biswas\u2019s career from its origins in the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s to her important photographic installations of the 1990s and her subsequent major moving-image works, including her newly commissioned film Lumen. The first substantial publication on the artist in over 17 years, it features two new conversations with the artist and two commissioned essays. It also includes a republication of Griselda Pollock\u2019s important text on Biswas\u2019s work, along with a postface reflecting on their relationship in the decades since the essay\u2019s original publication. <\/p>\n<p>Published on the occasion of the exhibition: <em>Sutapa Biswas: Lumen<\/em> BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (26 June 2021\u201322 March 2022) and Kettle\u2019s Yard, University of Cambridge (16 October 2021\u201330 January 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of the four-decade career of celebrated British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas and her new film, Lumen, meditating on the history of colonialism together with personal memories.<br \/>Preface 5<br \/>\nLumen: An introduction 7<br \/>\nSutapa Biswas &#038; The Space of Diaspora 13<br \/>\nOn Housewives with Steak-knives 23<br \/>\nReading between the Texts: on Kali 41<br \/>\nTracing Figures of Presence, Naming Ciphers of Absence 49<br \/>\nA Postface, and a Continued Conversation 75<br \/>\nLumen 97<br \/>\nList of Illustrations 121<br \/>\nSutapa Biswas Biography 124<br \/>\nAuthor Biographies 125<br \/>\nAcknowledgments 128<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34677,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34676","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-amy-tobin","8":"author-text-by-alessandro-vincentelli","9":"author-text-by-alina-khakoo","10":"author-text-by-amy-tobin","11":"author-text-by-anna-arabindan-kesson","12":"author-text-by-courtney-j-martin","13":"author-text-by-griselda-pollock","14":"author-text-by-sutapa-biswas","15":"publisher-ridinghouse","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sutapa Biswas: Lumen - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Sutapa Biswas: Lumen, Pages: 128 Pages, Publish Date: 10th Mar 2022, Author: Edited by Amy Tobin, Text by Alessandro Vincentelli, Text by Alina Khakoo, Text by Amy Tobin, Text by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Text by Courtney J. 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