Gods in the bazaar the economies of Indian calendar art

Jain, Kajri

Gods in the bazaar the economies of Indian calendar art - Durham Duke University Press 2007 - xii,434p. ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. - Objects/histories .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-425) and index.

Introduction : calendar art as an object of knowledge -- Genealogy -- Vernacularizing capitalism : Sivakasi and its circuits -- When the gods go to market -- Naturalizing the popular -- Economy -- The sacred icon in the age of the work of art and mechanical reproduction -- The circulation of images and the embodiment of value -- Efficacy -- The efficacious image and the sacralization of modernity -- Flexing the canon.

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Calendar art--India.
Commercial art--India.
Art and popular culture--India.
Gods in art.
Idols and images in art.

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