Contemporary Indian Art: Imagined Locales

The volume on contemporary Indian art presents artists who speak about their work, elaborating on their perspectives and practice. With essays and interviews involving forty-two leading artists, it is based on three themes: the experience of alienation as embedded within the spectacle of the twenty-first century; the metropolis, the artists’ works manifesting the internal chaotic experience of the assumed homogeneity and metropolitan urbanity; and prolific use of texts by artists to highlight the context of meanings and lost meanings as vital to one’s living. Referring to the views of art theorists and art critics, it interprets artists’ engagement with depiction of the human form in art, their engagement with time and the artists’ expression of nature, culture, tradition and ideas.