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Informationen zum Autor Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University. Klappentext An engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain! arguably India's most iconic contemporary artist! whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democratic! secular and multi-ethnic nation. It examines the artistic statement that Husain has presented on the self! community and nation through his oeuvre. 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 Monica Juneja Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Barefoot across India: An Artist and his Country Sumathi Ramaswamy 2. Modernist Myths and the Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain Geeta Kapur 3. Art on Trial: Civilization and Religion in the Persona and Painting of M. F. Husain David Gilmartin and Barbara D. Metcalf 4. Mapping India after Husain Sumathi Ramaswamy 5. Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artist Ananya Jahanara Kabir 6. Of M. F. Husain and an Impossible Love Veena Das 7. ‘I am an Indian and a painter, that is all’: Intention and the Secular Subject in Contemporary India Karin Zitzewitz 8. Defending Husain in the Public Sphere: The SAHMAT Experience Ram Rahman 9. Fault-lines in a National Edifice: On the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art Tapati Guha-Thakurta 10. Taking and Making Offence: Husain and the Politics of Desecration Kajri Jain 11. The Bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his Muse Patricia Uberoi 12. Viewed from Across the Globe: The Art of M. F. Husain Susan S. Bean 13. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile Bruce B. Lawrence. Notes on Contributors . Index ...
