The Triumph of Modernism
India’s Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-47
Distributed for Reaktion Books
256 pages
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100 color plates, 50 halftones
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7 1/2 x 9 3/4
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© 2007
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Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
One
The Formalist Prelude
Two
The Indian Discourse of Primitivism
I Two Pioneering Women Artists
II Rabindranath Tagore’s Vision of Art and the Community
III Jamini Roy and Art for the Community
Three
Naturalists in the Age of Modernism
I The Regional Expressions of Academic Naturalism
II From Orientalism to a New Naturalism: K. Venkatappa and Deviprosad Roy Chowdhury
Four
Contested Nationalism: The New Delhi and India House Murals
Epilogue
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Review Quotes
The Independent
"Lucid and well-illustrated."
Don J. Cohn | Art AsiaPacific
"Mitter proceeds chronologically . . . filling the immensely readable pages with personality, place and incident--and with a remarkably low incident of art-speak and theory--giving the reader a sense of living through the 25 years as a member of this remarkable community."
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