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Triumph of Modernism - India's Artists and the Avant-garde 1922-1947 (Paperback)
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Triumph of Modernism - India's Artists and the Avant-garde 1922-1947 (Paperback)
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This richly illustrated book explores the contested history of art
and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in
India. Western avant-garde art inspired a powerful weapon of
resistance among India's artists in their struggle against colonial
repression, and it is this complex interplay of Western modernism
and Indian nationalism that is the core of this book. "The Triumph
of Modernism" takes the surprisingly unremarked Bauhaus exhibition
in Calcutta in 1922 as marking the arrival of European modernism in
India. In four broad sections Partha Mitter examines the decline of
oriental art and the rise of naturalism as well as that of
modernism in the 1920s, and the relationship between primitivism
and modernism in Indian art: with Mahatma Gandhi inspiring the
Indian elite to discover the peasant, the people of the soil became
portrayed by artists as noble savages. A distinct feminine voice
also evolved through the rise of female artists. Finally, the
author probes the ambivalent relationship between Indian
nationalism and imperial patronage of the arts. With a fascinating
array of art works, few of which have either been seen or published
in the West, "The Triumph of Modernism" throws much light on a
previously neglected strand of modern art and introduces the work
of artists who are little known in Europe or America. A book that
challenges the dominance of Western modernism, it will be
illuminating not just to students and scholars of modernism and
Indian art, but to a wide international audience that admires
India's culture and history.
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