Displaying Time

Rebecca M. Brown is associate professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India and Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980, and coeditor of A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture.

• 1. Flickering Light, Fluttering Textiles An Interruption: Derridean Temporality at the Festival 2. Material Transformations: Clay, Terracotta, Trash 3. Time, Interrupted: People in the Gallery 4. Entrepreneurial Exhibits 5. The Contemporary, at a Distance6. Setting Up the Tent Anew

"Rebecca M. Brown's Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India launches a productive way of understanding and interpreting festivals and contributes to South East Asian studies, especially Indian art in North America in the twentieth century."- Vasiliki Sirakouli (H-Celebration) "Displaying Time can be read as an innovative and engaging approach to exploring, through its overarching theme of temporality, the complexities of staging a large-scale international festival event and will be of interest to those concerned with the presentation of art and cultural histories through museum and exhibition practices. It is also valuable through its offering to the reader the means to 'refocus their temporal lenses' in order to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the web of moments and durations, flows and interruptions, linear, cyclical and layered temporalities, and the temporal resonances that are all constituents of such exhibitions and events."(Leonardo Reviews) "Brown. . . boldly unfurls novel ways of thinking through, and with, exhibitory practices of the past, the present, and the future."(caa.reviews)