Memories of A Gay Life Sunil Gupta
Published by Yoda Press, New Delhi 2008
"It is here that the personal and the intimate remain sacred but become both public and political. This is sexuality at its most delicate but also its most powerful. Perhaps it is odd to be grateful for a book as its editor. Yet if Sunil Gupta's images are to teach us anything, I can and must be all of editor, subject, friend, and colleague, all at once.
Part of the first rank of a creative 'migrant' generation which became increasingly visible on the global visual art scene in the 1980s, Sunil Gupta welds together a new language of aesthetics, art, and politics in his work. Wish You Were Here is more than just a memoir of a life, it is a journey through the creation of a new visual vocabulary that transformed words like diaspora, sexuality, sex, migration, home, AIDS, and disease into images that revealed and provoked other ways of seeing and understanding. Documenting how the intimate and the personal became political in places as different and as similar as Delhi, London, San Francisco and Tilonia, it is a fiercely contemporary work which will define new directions in Indian visual art as well as in ongoing debates about difference and sexuality."
© Gautam Bhan, Sexuality Series Editor
Retail Price Rs 995 / US$ 30
Binding Hardback
Publication Date October 2008
ISBN 978-81-906668-0-0
Extent 128 pp
Trim 8.25 x 6.25 inches
Illustrations 120 colour photographs
Available from:
Scholarswithoutborders
Cambridge University Press India
Published by Yoda Press, New Delhi 2008
"It is here that the personal and the intimate remain sacred but become both public and political. This is sexuality at its most delicate but also its most powerful. Perhaps it is odd to be grateful for a book as its editor. Yet if Sunil Gupta's images are to teach us anything, I can and must be all of editor, subject, friend, and colleague, all at once.
Part of the first rank of a creative 'migrant' generation which became increasingly visible on the global visual art scene in the 1980s, Sunil Gupta welds together a new language of aesthetics, art, and politics in his work. Wish You Were Here is more than just a memoir of a life, it is a journey through the creation of a new visual vocabulary that transformed words like diaspora, sexuality, sex, migration, home, AIDS, and disease into images that revealed and provoked other ways of seeing and understanding. Documenting how the intimate and the personal became political in places as different and as similar as Delhi, London, San Francisco and Tilonia, it is a fiercely contemporary work which will define new directions in Indian visual art as well as in ongoing debates about difference and sexuality."
© Gautam Bhan, Sexuality Series Editor
Retail Price Rs 995 / US$ 30
Binding Hardback
Publication Date October 2008
ISBN 978-81-906668-0-0
Extent 128 pp
Trim 8.25 x 6.25 inches
Illustrations 120 colour photographs
Available from:
Scholarswithoutborders
Cambridge University Press India