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, as well, such as the extent of its rootedness in the country.
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, as well, such as the extent of its rootedness in the country.
Yashodhara Dalmia is an art historian and an independent curator based in New Delhi. Her book Amrita Sher-Gil - A Life (2006), which is a comprehensive account of the life of one of India's acclaimed woman artists, received widespread international acclaim. Her book The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives (2001) is regarded as the definitive account of a seminal phase of Indian art history. Her publication Buddha to Krishna: Life and Times of George Keyt (2017) is a biography of the famed Sri Lankan artist George Keyt. Her latest book Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist (2021) is a biography of the well-known modernist artist Sayed Haider Raza. She has curated several large shows of modern Indian art including The Moderns (1996) which inaugurated the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and Amrita Sher-Gil: A Passionate Quest (2014) at the NGMA, Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai.
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List of Illustrations viii Illustrations in Colour ix Introduction: Life of Art, Art of Life: Encounters with Modern India 1 1 The Last Mughal Painters and Their Modern Movements 5 2 Colonial Encounters: Shekhawati Frescoes 24 3 Vision of Tagore 31 4 Making for Modernity: Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Benodebehari Mukherjee 39 5 Amrita Sher-Gil: Towards the 'Other' Art 61 6 Rise of Modern Art and the Progressives 75 7 Metamorphosis: From Mammal to Man 88 8 Nasreen: Mutating Chaos 96 9 Amar Nath Sehgal: Partition, Fragmentation and Disjunction 103 10 Bhupen Khakhar: Tryst with the Common Man 112 11 Amrita Sher-Gil to Bharti Kher 124 12 Indian (Sub)Way: Navigating Sub-territories and Underground Tracks 132 13 Excavation/Eruption: Excavating Realities, Erupting Reflections 142 14 Scroll Painters of India 151 15 Jivya Soma Mashe: Sense of Self 156 Index 161
List of Illustrations viii Illustrations in Colour ix Introduction: Life of Art, Art of Life: Encounters with Modern India 1 1 The Last Mughal Painters and Their Modern Movements 5 2 Colonial Encounters: Shekhawati Frescoes 24 3 Vision of Tagore 31 4 Making for Modernity: Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Benodebehari Mukherjee 39 5 Amrita Sher-Gil: Towards the 'Other' Art 61 6 Rise of Modern Art and the Progressives 75 7 Metamorphosis: From Mammal to Man 88 8 Nasreen: Mutating Chaos 96 9 Amar Nath Sehgal: Partition, Fragmentation and Disjunction 103 10 Bhupen Khakhar: Tryst with the Common Man 112 11 Amrita Sher-Gil to Bharti Kher 124 12 Indian (Sub)Way: Navigating Sub-territories and Underground Tracks 132 13 Excavation/Eruption: Excavating Realities, Erupting Reflections 142 14 Scroll Painters of India 151 15 Jivya Soma Mashe: Sense of Self 156 Index 161
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