Published in association with Art Alive Foundation. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The geopolitics of modernism in the 20 century / Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram -- Part I. Colonial Modernity, Art and National Identity (1900-1947). Introduction / Partha Mitter -- Chapter 1. Indian artists' dialogue with modernity (1900-1922) / Partha Mitter -- Chapter 2. Competing voices of modernity (1922-1947) / Partha Mitter -- Chapter 3. Another voice of modernity / Partha Mitter -- Chapter 4. Indian photography in the colonial era / Partha Mitter -- Chapter 5. Empire, colony and nation : Abanindranath Tagore and the Shah Jahan paintings / Debashish Banerji -- Chapter 6. Retake of Amrita Sher-Gil's 'Self-Portrait as Tahitian' / Saloni Mathur -- Chapter 7. Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose and art in Santiniketan / R. Siva Kumar -- Chapter 8. The 1940s : The Calcutta Group and the Bengal Famine / Sanjoy Mallik -- Chapter 9. Structures in place : Modernity and sculptural imagination in 20th-century India / Sanjukta Sunderason -- Chapter 10. The Arts and Crafts Movement : Modern reinvocations / Naman P. Ahuja -- Part II. Post-Colonial Decades in Visual Art Practices. Introduction / Parul Dave Mukherji -- Chapter 11. Bombay modern : The Progressive Artists' Group and the quest for significant form / Yashodhara Dalmia -- Chapter 12. Exodus westwards : Padamsee, Raza and Souza in Europe / Karin Zitzewitz -- Chapter 13. The Delhi Silpi Chakra : Art and politics after the Radcliffe Line / Atreyee Gupta -- Chapter 14. Nation and its discontents : Group 1890 / Rebecca M. Brown -- Chapter 15. Crafting modernity through regional traditions : The Madras Art Movement / Ashrafi S. Bhagat -- Chapter 16. Ornamental modernism : Regional aesthetics and the art of Andhra Pradesh / Rahini Iyengar -- Chapter 17. Bengal decentred : The emergence of the regional modern / Nandini Ghosh -- Chapter 18. Looking 'East' : The art of Assam and around / Amrita Gupta Singh -- Chapter 19. Framed borders : Photography in India after independence / Rahaab Allana -- Chapter 20. The classical and the monumental in Indian sculpture (1947-present) / Annapurna Garimella -- Chapter 21. The making of the Baroda School : When people become public / Parul Dave Mukherji -- Chapter 22. Museumizing the present : Museums of modern art in India, public and private / Kavita Singh -- Chapter 23. The art of ideas : Critics, journals and modernism in India (c. 1946-1981) / Sonal Khullar -- Chapter 24. Modernist myths and the exile of Maqbool Fida Husain / Geeta Kapur -- Part III. Nation after Globalization : Art in India in the 1900s-2000s. Introduction / Rakhee Balaram -- Chapter 25. Transformations : Art, globalization and cultural politics in 1990s India / Rebecca M. Brown -- Chapter 26. Public quickening : Two decades of installation art in India (1990-2010) / Elena Bernardini -- Chapter 27. Revisitations : Women artists in India since the 1990s / Gayatri Sinha -- Chapter 28. Minimal abstraction in India / Grant Watson -- Chapter 29. 'A Chaos of Awakened Wonders' : Heteroglossia and multimodal signs in Indian sculptural practice / Maya Kóvskaya -- Chapter 30. Exit wounds : Practice and politics of performance art in India / Rakhee Balaram -- Chapter 31. Photo-fact, photo-fiction : Constructing artist photography in modern and contemporary Indian art / Shukla Sawant -- Chapter 32. An archaeology of new media practice in India / Nancy Adajania -- Chapter 33. Indian video art and the 'new' narrative matrix / Johan Pijnappel -- Chapter 34. Post-postcolonial sensory infrastructure / Ravi Sundaram -- Chapter 35. Art and activism in India : A return to the public sphere? / Deeptha Achar -- Chapter 36. Practising participation : Contemporary community-based art practice in India / Rajashree Biswal -- Chapter 37. The contemporary in the 'folk' and 'tribal' arts of India / Jyotindra Jain -- Chapter 38. Dalit art and imagery : Expanding the Indian contemporary / Gary Michael Tartakov -- Chapter 39. Crafting contemporary art in India / Annapurna Garimella -- Chapter 40. Desultory diaspora : Post-independence and contemporary South Asian art / Rakhee Balaram -- Chapter 41. Domains of presentation and reception : Indian contemporary art overseas, some partial perspectives / John Clark -- Part IV. Mapping Several Regional Modernisms in South Asia : Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Introduction / Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram -- Chapter 42. A short history of art in Pakistan / Simone Wille -- Chapter 43. Framing modern and contemporary art in Nepal / Dina Bangdel -- Chapter 44. Modern and contemporary art in Bangladesh / A. K. M. Khademul Haque -- Chapter 45. Contemporary art from Myanmar under militarization / Zasha Colah -- Chapter 46. Modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka / T. Sanathanan -- Epilogue : On the edge of the global . Interviews with artists and critics : Krishen Khanna, K. G. Subramanyan, Jogen Chowdhury, Geeta Kapur, R. Nandakumar, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Iftikhar Dadi, Raqs Media Collective, Jitish Kallat, Anita Dube.
Summary:
A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late 19th century to the present day, published in association with Art Alive. Recent decades have seen significant growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian and South Asian art and artists by major international museums. This essential textbook, primarily aimed at students, presents an engaging, informative history of modern art from the subcontinent as seen through the eyes of prominent Indian academics. Illustrated throughout with strong narrative content, key experts contribute multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, and expansive ideas about contemporary art practices. A range of subjects and topics feature including Group 1890, the Madras Art Movement, Regional Modern and Dalit art, as well as artists such as Amrita Sher-Gil and Raqs Media Collective. This book also has sections devoted to the art of Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia. Together with lively academic discussions and a selection of absorbing interviews with artists, this title meets a clear demand for a comprehensive and authoritative sourcebook on modern, postmodern and contemporary Indian art. It is the definitive reference for anyone with an interest in Indian art and non-Western art histories. Published in association with Art Alive.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.