Worldly affiliations : artistic practice, national identity, and modernism in India, 1930-1990 /

Drawing on Edward Said's notion of 'affiliation' as a critical and cultural imperative against empire and nation-state, Worldly Affiliations traces the emergence of a national art world in twentieth-century India and emphasizes its cosmopolitan ambitions and orientations. Sonal Khulla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Khullar, Sonal, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Sher-Gil, Amrita, > 1913-1941 > Criticism and interpretation. Husain, Maqbul Fida > Criticism and interpretation. Subramanyan, K. G., > 1924- > Criticism and interpretation. Khakhar, Bhupen, > 1934-2003 > Criticism and interpretation. Art, Indic > 20th century. Art, Modern > 20th century. Modernism (Art) > India.

Table of Contents:

Affiliation, worldliness, and modernism in India
An art of the soil : Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941)
Man and Mahabharata : Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011)
The new primitives : K. G. Subramanyan (1924-)
Paan shop for people : Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003)
Globalization, the new-media nineties, and the persistence of modernism.