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This book explores modern art in India, tracing its evolution from the setting-up of the Progressive Artists Group in the 1940s to the contemporary movements today. It discusses some of the fundamental issues around Indian art, as well, such as the extent of its rootedness in the country.
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Introduction 1. Last Mughal Painters and Their Modern Movements 2. Colonial Encounters: Shekhavati Frescoes 3. Vision of Tagore 4. Rooting Modernity: Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij, Benodebehari Mukherjee 5. Amrita Sher-Gil: Towards The 'Other' Art 6. Rise of Modern Art and The Progressives 7. Tyeb Mehta: Metamorphosis from Mammal to Man 8. Nasreen: Mutating Chaos 9. Amar Nath Sehgal: Partition, Fragmentation, Disjunction 10. Importance of Bhupen Khakhar 11. Amrita Sher-Gil to Bharti Kher: Seventy-Five Years of Modern Indian Art 12. Indian Subway 13. Excavation/Eruption 14. The Scroll Painters of India 15. Jivya Soma Mashe.
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Yashodhara Dalmia is an art historian and an independent curator based in New Delhi. Her book
Amrita Sher-Gil - A Life (2006), which is a comprehensive account of the life of one of India's acclaimed woman artists, received widespread international acclaim. Her book
The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives (2001), is regarded as the definitive account of a seminal phase of Indian art history. Her publication
Buddha to Krishna: Life and Times of George Keyt (2017) is a biography of the famed Sri Lankan artist George Keyt. Her latest book
Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist (2021) is a biography of the well-known modernist artist Sayed Haider Raza. She has curated several large shows of modern Indian art including The Moderns (1996) which inaugurated the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and
Amrita Sher-Gil: A Passionate Quest (2014) at the NGMA, Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai.
