Gayatri Sinha
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This volume signals an intertextual reading of the fourth generation of Indian artists since Independence. Working in the glare of international circuits and curatorial attention, this generation sets into motion leading issues in Indian art today. Widely seen in international biennales and galleries, their work is collated here for the first time in a book with a critical reading.An investigation into popular politics and mythology, conflicts around ...
This volume brings together 19 seminal essays on India's visual culture and its leading manifestations during the period 1857-2007. It traces the shifting role of the artist and art institution through cataclysmic changes in India's history. The early essays cover the age of empire, which saw the advent of mechanical reproduction and the setting up of British art academies that permanently changed the Indian Karkhana style of work. British museums established in ...
Living in India means living simultaneously in several cultures and times. Traditional and modern, private and public, the inside and outside continually telescope and reunite. Like the many-eyed and many-armed archetype of an Indian child, I draw energy from the source.
Indian Art : An Overview is a seminal study on Indian art's entry through modernism into post-modernism. Through fifteen essays, leading tendencies in Indian art are traced from the period of the 1850s onwards. Leading critics and art historians analyse the contributions of Kalighat painting, the Bengal School, Santiniketan and the Madras aesthetic. Through essays on the influence of Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil and the progressive artists' group, the volume ...
Krishen Khanna speaks of his drawing as an intuitive process. "I start to scratch the surface of a piece of paper. Soon enough, the pencil moves as if of its own accord, putting my hand this way and that rather like a pencil in a planchet creating a nervous scribble meaningful only to the directing ghost…" In an output of painting that exceeds fifty years. Khanna attracts more than one reading of his work. His paintings and drawings emerge as ...
Satish Gujral: An Artography traces the aesthetic and personal journey of a pioneer of modern Indian art, over the last five decades. A true Renaissance artist, Satish Gujral defies categorization. Painter, sculptor, muralist, architect, interior designer and more, he has ventured beyond the conventional boundaries of individual art forms. A master of medium, he has painted in oil and acrylic, sculpted using wood, bronze and granite, made paper collages and ...
This reader is being published by sahmat in conjunction with the symposium 'Iconography Now: Rewriting Art History?' The immediate provocation for both have been the most recent attacks on MF Husain, which started as an internet campaign in the US in October 2005. There is a sense of Deja vu here, as we have been down this road before. For most of us, who thought that the change in regime two years ago heralded the end of the carefully planned, communal assaults ...
Written by some of India's best known critics and scholars of contemporary art, the articles trace the presence of women on the Indian art scene from the early initiatice of Amrita Sherigal. Works of 15 painters, sculptors and graphic artists are presented in over a hundred colour and thirty black & white reproductions.
No discourse on Indian modernist sculpture would be complete without according a position of centrality to Himmat Shah. For over four decades now, Himmat has demonstrated his leading preoccupations, primarily in drawing and sculpture. If one stands back to take a telescopic view of his sculpture, it would probably fall in the areas of enigma, domesticity and sheer whim.