Barefoot Across the Nation - M F Husain and the Idea of India

Informationen zum Autor Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University. Zusammenfassung This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, India’s most iconic artist today. The articles engage with controversies that have erupted around Husain’s work, and situate them in debates about the freedom of the artist versus the sentiments of the community. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Barefoot across India: An Artist and his Country 2. Modernist Myths and the Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain 3. Art on Trial: Civilization and Religion in the Persona and Painting of M. F. Husain 4. Mapping India after Husain 5. Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artist 6. Of M. F. Husain and an Impossible Love 7. ‘I am an Indian and a painter, that is all’: Intention and the Secular Subject in Contemporary India 8. Defending Husain in the Public Sphere: The SAHMAT Experience 9. Fault-lines in a National Edifice: On the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art 10. Taking and Making Offence: Husain and the Politics of Desecration 11. The Bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his Muse 12. Viewed from Across the Globe: The Art of M. F. Husain 13. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile Notes on Contributors . Index

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• Authors: Sumathi Ramaswamy
• Assisted by: Sumathi Ramaswamy (Editor), Ramaswamy Sumathi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2019
• EAN: 9781138948136
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94813-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Visual and Media Histories; Visual and Media Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ART / General, India, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, c 1900 to c 1909, Paintings and painting, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General