Worldly affiliations : artistic practice, national identity, and modernism in India, 1930-1990
"The purpose of art, the Paris-trained artist Amrita Sher-Gil wrote in 1936, is to "create the forms of the future by draw[ing] its inspiration from the present. Through art, new worlds can be imagined into existence as artists cultivate forms of belonging and networks of association that...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
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- Affiliation, worldliness, and modernism in India
- An art of the soil : Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941)
- Man and Mahabharata : Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011)
- The new primitives : K. G. Subramanyan (1924-)
- Paan shop for people : Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003)
- Globalization, the new-media nineties, and the persistence of modernism