Archive · 23 May 2025
Geeta Kapur's Anthology Explores Art, Dissent, and Decolonization
Imagine a book by Geeta Kapur, who is a smart person who talks and writes about art!
The book is called Speech Acts and it's like a collection of her thoughts, essays, and talks.
It asks some big questions like: How can artists be free when art and money are so mixed together?
What should artists think about the government?
And how does history and different cultures affect how art is made?
It's all about exploring different ideas about art and culture, and it helps us think about how art fits into the world around us.
Geeta Kapur's new anthology is titled Speech Acts.
The anthology includes essays, talks, and interviews.
Kapur is an art critic, theorist, and curator.
The anthology explores themes Kapur has addressed in her career.
The anthology examines the intersection of art and commerce, the artist's relationship with the nation-state, and the influence of decolonization.
- Who
- Geeta Kapur, an art critic, theorist, and curator.
- What
- Speech Acts, a new anthology featuring essays, talks, and interviews.
- When
- N/A
- Where
- N/A
- Why
- To address and interrogate themes Kapur has explored throughout her career.
- Author
- Geeta Kapur
- Type
- Anthology
- Title
- Speech Acts
- Topics
- Art, commerce, decolonization, artistic dissent