Urban Kitsch Cotton

Urban Kitsch CottonUrban Kitsch, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalisation of the Indian economy. Plastic toys, celebrity mud flaps, and postmodern architecture collide into a new formal categoryboth celebrated and deridedas Praneet Soi traverses the city on his trusted Yamaha RX 100. Published here for the first time, Urban Kitsch was written as part of Praneet Sois

all the more remarkable at a time when communalism was rife in national politics

yet immensely real and endearing

These surreal inversions of reality take the viewer to the interior world of the subject and

Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Chris Marker are discussed

the girl sits on her props

revealing both the filmmaker and the man

This volume includes two long essays—the first explores the poetry of Negritude by analysing the work of several Black poets of the time

Category: Politics

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About the author

and Leopardi

Charcoal on paper