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Book 2000  Reflections on the Arts in India

Download or read book 2000 Reflections on the Arts in India written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arts reflect a society's deeply held values and aesthetic sensibilities. It is therefore necessary to periodically review the arts as an indicator of the broader developments in society and discern the direction in which they are heading. To greet the arrival of 2001, this volume invited more than a dozen scholars and intellectuals -- each as expert in his or her field -- to assess the current state of the world of art in India. The topics selected provide a wide range of issues and trends, problems and perspectives.

Book Art for a Modern India  1947 1980

Download or read book Art for a Modern India 1947 1980 written by Rebecca M. Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Despair and Modernity

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  • Author : Harsha V. Dehejia
  • Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9788120817555
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Despair and Modernity written by Harsha V. Dehejia and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dehejia has tried to create a place within the main frame of culture and philosophy of Indian art for a legitimate analytic theory called despair. Dehejia's effort creates a space for the modern within Indian classicism by negotiating the philosophy of despair in classical terms. As a result the basic schism that has grown in recent years between the philosophy and history of modern art on the one hand and the philosophy and history of traditional arts is today cloder to being breached.

Book Reflections on Indian Art and Culture

Download or read book Reflections on Indian Art and Culture written by Swarna Kamal Bhowmik and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ABIA  South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index

Download or read book ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index written by Sita Pieris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.

Book Some Reflections on an Indian Art Renaissance

Download or read book Some Reflections on an Indian Art Renaissance written by Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infrastructure and Form

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  • Author : Karin Zitzewitz
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-09-06
  • ISBN : 0520387090
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Infrastructure and Form written by Karin Zitzewitz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. In response to the liberalization of India’s economy, art was cultivated by a booming market as well as by new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots and transnational connections. The result was an unprecedented efflorescence of contemporary art and growth of a network of institutions radiating out from India. Among the first studies of contemporary South Asian art, Infrastructure and Form engages with sixteen of India’s leading contemporary artists and art collectives to examine what made this development possible. Karin Zitzewitz articulates the connections among formal trajectories of medium and material, curatorial frames and networks of circulation, and the changing conditions of everyday life after economic liberalization. By untangling the complex interactions of infrastructure and form, the book offers a discussion of the barriers and conduits that continue to shape global contemporary art and its relationship to capital more broadly.

Book Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins

Download or read book Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins written by Sirshendu Majumdar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins. Through these letters, the volume explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, and education in India; aspects of Irish Orientalism; Irish literary revival; theosophy, eastern knowledge, and spiritualism; cross-cultural dialogue and friendship; Renaissance in India; anti-imperialism; nationalism; internationalism; and cosmopolitanism. The book reveals a hitherto unexplored facet concerning two leading thinkers in the history of ideas in a transnational context. With its lucid style, extensive annotations and a comprehensive Introduction, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Bengali literature, comparative literature, South Asian studies, Tagore studies, modern Indian history, philosophy, cultural studies, education, political studies, postcolonial studies, India studies, Irish history, and Irish literature. It will also interest general readers and the Bengali diaspora.

Book ICoRD 13

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  • Author : Amaresh Chakrabarti
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-01-12
  • ISBN : 8132210506
  • Pages : 1404 pages

Download or read book ICoRD 13 written by Amaresh Chakrabarti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases over 100 cutting-edge research papers from the 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’13) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from over 20 countries, on the design process, methods and tools, for supporting global product development (GPD). The special features of the book are the variety of insights into the GPD process, and the host of methods and tools at the cutting edge of all major areas of design research for its support. The main benefit of this book for researchers in engineering design and GPD are access to the latest quality research in this area; for practitioners and educators, it is exposure to an empirically validated suite of methods and tools that can be taught and practiced.

Book New Subjects and New Governance in India

Download or read book New Subjects and New Governance in India written by Ranabir Samaddar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process — one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgation of the Indian Constitution in 1950, this volume explores the second transition towards developmental democracy, examining the interrelations between globalisation, development and structures of governance. The volume suggests that while there is need to reflect on the governance of transition, it is important to question how democracy negotiates this transition.

Book Reflections on Indian Art

Download or read book Reflections on Indian Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Art  Inventing

Download or read book Indian Art Inventing written by and published by VADEHRA ART GALLERY. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of art work by 28 artists against the variety of forms that have developed since the 1990s.

Book Theatres of Independence

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  • Author : Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2009-11
  • ISBN : 158729642X
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Theatres of Independence written by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.

Book Sight and Insight

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  • Author : John Onians
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 1994-03-28
  • ISBN : 9780714829715
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Sight and Insight written by John Onians and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1994-03-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Art History

Download or read book Indian Art History written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baroda

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  • Author : Priya Maholay-Jaradi
  • Publisher : Marg Publications
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Baroda written by Priya Maholay-Jaradi and published by Marg Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroda, a leading center for the arts, spans plural domainsAs the writers approach Baroda from different vantage points, they render its story in unique ways: as first-person accounts, and as art critics, anthropologists and historians. Early artists, craftsmen and photographers engage with Sayajirao Gaekwad III; the royal patron in turn represents these practitioners at international exhibitions; itinerant builders and established European architects contribute to a fast-modernizing princely state; artists, art teachers and administrators set new directions for a Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA) in post-Independence Baroda/India; patrons, gallerists, scholars and artists shape contemporary Baroda's artistic culture.Priya Maholay-Jaradi, former Curator at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, is an independent art historian. She has an MA in art history from SOAS, London and a PhD from the National University of Singapore. She has initiated a post-doctoral project, Asian Collection Studies at the IIAS, Leiden (2013). She is the author of Portrait of a Community: Paintings and Photographs of the Parsees (2002) and Parsi Portraits from the Studio of Raja Ravi Varma (2011) and a forthcoming book on Baroda's modernity and nationalism.

Book Lasting Legacies Of Mulk Raj Anand

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  • Author : Md. Rizwan Khan
  • Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 9788126909834
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Lasting Legacies Of Mulk Raj Anand written by Md. Rizwan Khan and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mulk Raj Anand, 1905-2004, Indo-English novelist; contributed articles; some previously published.