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This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa's (1886-1965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspired his art. It looks at the artist's style and examines the question of modernity in Indian art through the interstices of the regional and the national.
List of contents
List of illustrationsSeries editor's prefaceAcknowledgements1. IntroductionDeeptha Achar and Pushpamala N
Part IFiguring the Artist: The Life and Times of K Venkatappa2. Old Mysore: A Milieu for an Artist
Chandan Gowda3. Venkatappa's Calcutta Interlude and His Career at Large
R Sivakumar 4. Life Writing and the Self-fashioning of the Artist
R H KulkarniPart IISituating Venkatappa: International Contexts and National Concerns4. The Creation of an Alternative Regional Avant-garde: Rabindranath Tagore, Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism
Partha Mitter5.
Sadanga's Aesthetic Division of Labour: Abanindranath Tagore and Venkatappa's Shaping of a New National Self
Parul Dave Mukherji7. "Mysore Modern" across the Arts
Ajay SinhaPart IIIVenkatappa, Colonial Modernity and the Question of Region8. Actor of His Own Ideal: K. Venkatappa and the Consolidation of Artistic Persona
R. Nandakumar9. The Language of Line: K. Venkatappa and K.K. Hebbar
Suresh Jayaram10 Kannada Romanticism: Kuvempu and Venkatappa
Mamta SagarPart IVVenkatappa and the Fashioning of a Modernist Idiom11. Speculations and Provocations around Venkatappa's Bas-Reliefs
Pushpamala N12. The Plant Studies of K Venkatappa: The Artist's Kinship with Nature, Truth, and Rationality
Srajana Kaikini13 The Long Exposure: Painting and Photography in Early Twentieth Century Mysore
Shukla SawantPart V: K. Venkatappa: Another Genre, Another World14 A South-Easterly Approach to the Developing Cold Front (or the Creative and Business Explorations of a True Crinsepian)
Abhishek Hazra 15. Afterword: Venkatappa's Legacy for Our Times
Janaki Nair Index
About the author
Deeptha Achar is Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India. She has co-edited
Towards New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (2003),
Discourse, Democracy and Difference: Perspectives on Community, Politics and Culture (2010), and
Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism (2012) apart from academic articles and catalogue essays. Her research interests include visual culture studies and childhood studies.
Pushpamala N. is an internationally recognised independent artist, writer, and curator and one of the pioneering conceptual artists in India. She is known for her strong feminist work, informed by cultural theory and social science. Her essays have been published internationally and she has presented papers at several major conferences on visual studies, cultural studies, contemporary art, and art history in India and abroad.
Summary
This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa’s (1886–1965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspired his art. It looks at the artist’s style and examines the question of modernity in Indian art through the interstices of the regional and the national.
