{"id":1061,"date":"2009-10-30T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/comics-from-india.html"},"modified":"2009-10-30T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:06:00","slug":"comics-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/comics-from-india.html","title":{"rendered":"Comics From India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SustQL51ZgI\/AAAAAAAAAfI\/YY3awty1v8U\/s1600-h\/devibala390.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SustQL51ZgI\/AAAAAAAAAfI\/YY3awty1v8U\/s320\/devibala390.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>THIS is the kind of high\/low, east\/west, pop\/myth collision i love: a new exhibit at the LACMA called &#8220;heroes and villains: the battle for good in india&#8217;s comics.&#8221; though the title evokes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/beach+boys\/heroes+%26+villains_20013881.html\">beach boys<\/a>, the show is more about devi, vishnu and other hindu gods and the way they return, through the magic of pop culture, in indian comic books.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-ca-india-comics1-2009nov01,0,4633695.story\">here<\/a> is my story from this sunday&#8217;s LATimes. i spoke to the show&#8217;s lead curator, julie romain (who used to assist the LACMA&#8217;s brilliant and notorious paul holdengraber with his memorable series) and the indian scholar debashish banerji. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>both of them framed the context against india&#8217;s disaspora, globalism and tranformation by western pop. i&#8217;ll return for a more considered look at this show, which includes a tour through the museum&#8217;s subsantial south\/southeast asian art collection.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/art\/exhibindiancomics.aspx\">LACMA<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS is the kind of high\/low, east\/west, pop\/myth collision i love: a new exhibit at the LACMA called &#8220;heroes and villains: the battle for good in india&#8217;s comics.&#8221; though the title evokes the beach boys, the show is more about devi, vishnu and other hindu gods and the way they return, through the magic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,254,412,180,156,30,411],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-comics","8":"category-diaspora","9":"category-india","10":"category-lacma","11":"category-los-angeles","12":"category-paul-holdengraber","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}