{"product_id":"speech-acts-hardcover-1","title":"Speech Acts - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeeta Kapur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeeta Kapur's writings engage with modernity, emphasizing alongside the need to identify the contradictions that undergird it. She has traversed a situated discourse across categories such as the Third World, the postcolonial and the global South. In \u003ci\u003eSpeech Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, she problematizes her own discourse by marking historical disjunctures, by tracking cultural anomalies in the contemporary. The essays, lectures and interviews that constitute this book range from manifesto-like assertions to the more reflective, wherein the relationship between subjectivity, aesthetics, and practice above all, is endorsed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeeta Kapur is a critic and curator. Her essays are extensively anthologized; her books include \u003ci\u003eContemporary Indian Artists\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eWhen Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003e Speech Acts\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), \u003ci\u003e Critic's Compass: Navigating Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming 2025). She was a founder-editor of \u003ci\u003eJournal of Arts \u0026amp; Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, advisory board member of \u003ci\u003eThird Text\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Marg\u003c\/i\u003e. Her curatorial projects include: 'Dispossession', Johannesburg Biennale (1995); 'Bombay\/Mumbai' (co-curator, Ashish Rajadhyaksha), \u003ci\u003eCentury City\u003c\/i\u003e, Tate Modern, London (2001); 'subTerrain', House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003); 'Aesthetic Bind', Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (five exhibitions, 2013-14). She is a Trustee of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF), Delhi, and general editor of the Art Documents series published by SSAF-Tulika Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.6 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48857759678718,"sku":"9788195639274","price":75.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/LBXYbG6B5m9788195639274_fb300604-3272-40f1-a496-3fb6cdae1e28.webp?v=1788431053","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/speech-acts-hardcover-1","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}