Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples
|
Not currently available
Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,059
Discovery Miles 20 590
You Save: R460
(18%)
|
|
Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (Hardcover)
Series: Objects/Histories
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating
modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an
“Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation,
while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both
universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted
India’s precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism’s
pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West’s dismissal of
non-Western places and cultures as sources of primitivist imagery
but not of modernist artworks. In Art for a Modern India, Rebecca
M. Brown explores the emergence of a self-conscious Indian
modernism—in painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, film,
and photography—in the years between independence and 1980, by
which time the Indian art scene had changed significantly and
postcolonial discourse had begun to complicate mid-century ideas of
nationalism.Through close analyses of specific objects of art and
design, Brown describes how Indian artists engaged with questions
of authenticity, iconicity, narrative, urbanization, and science
and technology. She explains how the filmmaker Satyajit Ray
presented the rural Indian village as a socially complex space
rather than as the idealized site of “authentic India” in his
acclaimed Apu Trilogy, how the painter Bhupen Khakhar reworked
Indian folk idioms and borrowed iconic images from calendar prints
in his paintings of urban dwellers, and how Indian architects
developed a revivalist style of bold architectural gestures
anchored in India’s past as they planned the Ashok Hotel and the
Vigyan Bhavan Conference Center, both in New Delhi. Discussing
these and other works of art and design, Brown chronicles the
mid-twentieth-century trajectory of India’s modern visual
culture.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.