Lalitha Lajmi /

"Lalitha Lajmi was born in Kolkata, India, in 1932. A self-taught artist, Lajmi's boundless artistic creativity was largely kept private for most of her life. Her first museum retrospective, at Mumbai's National Gallery of Modern Art, open its doors a month before the artist's de...

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Main Author: Arundhati-Thomas, Skye (Author)
Other Authors: Kholeif, Omar (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Sternberg Press, 2024.
Series:Imagine otherwise ; 3.
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Summary:"Lalitha Lajmi was born in Kolkata, India, in 1932. A self-taught artist, Lajmi's boundless artistic creativity was largely kept private for most of her life. Her first museum retrospective, at Mumbai's National Gallery of Modern Art, open its doors a month before the artist's death in 2023. Here, in the first critical biography published on the artist's work and life, Skye Arundhati-Thomas fashions a portrait of Lajmi through a meticulous analysis of the artist's watercolors and diaries. Lajmi comes into focus through psychoanalytic reflection, as India's "modernization project" unfolds in the background."--back cover
Physical Description:95 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.
ISBN:9781915609342
1915609348