Art of Bengal: Past and Present 1850-2000

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Art of Bengal-Past and Present is a testimony of hundred and fifty years of art in the Bengal region. This document is indeed a celebration as well as an educational journey. It celebrates the creative achievements of a region gained under colonial bondage and later in freedom. It is an education because it endeavours to unravel a kind of creative experimentation that has hardly been portrayed holistically before. Featuring over two hundred art plates, some from very rare collections, this book is especially invaluable for art historians, artists, critics and researchers. Exclusive contributions from leading historians and art historians specialising on Bengal make this document a vital source material. ‘Art of Bengal-Past and Present’, endeavours to capture the psychic dislocations and adjustments, the flair and creative struggle, which are inherent part of a search for an identity, and portrays the events, issues and sources which shaped the creative impulse of the people of Bengal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Rudrangshu Mukherjee was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a D.Phil in Modern History by the University of Oxford in 1981. He has taught History at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984, repr. 2002) and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres (Delhi, 1998). He has also edited The Penguin Gandhi Reader (Delhi, 1993) and the Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75 (Kolkata, 2003). He is the co-editor of Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta (Delhi, 1998). He is now editor, editorial pages, The Telegraph.