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About this book
This book explores modern art in India, tracing its evolution from the setting-up of the Progressive Artists Group in the 1940s to the contemporary movements today. It discusses some of the fundamental issues around Indian art, such as the extent of its rootedness in the country, the amalgamation of Western art methods and Indian aesthetics in the art and its increasing infusion with popular modes.
In a series of essays, the book looks at works from the late Mughal period, when artists began to move towards modernism, to the visionary approaches of artists like Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Benodebehari Mukherjee in Santiniketan. It also explores innovative works of the Indo-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil and contributions of progressive artists such as Francis Newton Souza, Sayed Haider Raza and M.F. Husain to the new and experimental forms being practised in the present, highlighting the transformative role of modern Indian art through the twentieth century as the works of each successive generation reflect the socio-cultural contexts.
With rich illustrations, the book will be of interest to students and educators of art, art history, intellectual and cultural history, as well as to connoisseurs of art.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Illustrations in Colour
- Introduction: Life of Art, Art of Life: Encounters with Modern India
- 1 The Last Mughal Painters and Their Modern Movements
- 2 Colonial Encounters: Shekhawati Frescoes
- 3 Vision of Tagore
- 4 Making for Modernity: Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Benodebehari Mukherjee
- 5 Amrita Sher-Gil: Towards the ‘Other’ Art
- 6 Rise of Modern Art and the Progressives
- 7 Metamorphosis: From Mammal to Man
- 8 Nasreen: Mutating Chaos
- 9 Amar Nath Sehgal: Partition, Fragmentation and Disjunction
- 10 Bhupen Khakhar: Tryst with the Common Man
- 11 Amrita Sher-Gil to Bharti Kher
- 12 Indian (Sub)Way: Navigating Sub-territories and Underground Tracks
- 13 Excavation/Eruption: Excavating Realities, Erupting Reflections
- 14 Scroll Painters of India
- 15 Jivya Soma Mashe: Sense of Self
- Index