Indian Art: An Overview

Contents: 1. Introduction/Gayatri Sinha. 2. Kalighat painting: other perspectives/Jyotindra Jain. 3. The marketing strategies of a modern Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma/A. Ramachandran. 4. Talent, tragedy and the myth of Amrita Sher-Gil/Rupika Chawla. 5. The Bengal school/Santo Datta. 6. Santiniketan: a community of artists and ideas/R. Sivakumar. 7. Impulses of the 1904s/Sanjoy Mallik: I. Jamini Roy. II. The young Turks. III. The Calcutta group. IV. Delhi Silpi Chakra. 8. The progressive artists group/Chaitanya Sambrani. 9. Indigenism: an inquiry into the quest for "Indianness" in contemporary Indian art/Shivaji Panikkar. 10. The 1970s simultaneous streams/Gayatri Sinha. 11. The Madras school modes of abstraction/A.S. Raman. 12. The history of printmaking in India/Shivaji Panikkar and Jyoti Bhatt. 13. Modern Indian sculpture/Ratan Parimoo. 14. Subverting the icon/Geeti Sen. 15. Indian art: influences and impulses of the 1980s and 1990s/Ranjit Hoskote. 16. Installation art in India/Roobina Karode. "Indian Art : An Overview is a seminal study on Indian art s entry through modernism into post-modernism. Through fifteen essays, leading tendencies in Indian art are traced from the period of the 1850s onwards. Leading critics and art historians analyse the contributions of Kalighat painting, the Bengal School, Santiniketan and the Madras aesthetic. Through essays on the influence of Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil and the progressive artists group, the volume comes up to date with Indian art in the contemporary period. The volume also provides substantial essays on the history of print-making and sculpture in India, and contains some thematic essays that analyse trends in a contemporary social context."