{"product_id":"art-for-a-modern-india-19471980-9780822343554","title":"Art for a Modern India 19471980","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA look at how prominent Indian visual artists created modern art for the postcolonial nation in the years between India's independence in 1947 and 1980.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[R]ecommended for libraries with graduate programs in art history and for others looking to expand their modern and non-Western art history collections.” - Melissa Aho, \u003ci\u003eARLIS\/NA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An interesting contribution, this book will be useful in general and undergraduate libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty\/ researchers; general readers.” - E. Findly, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bringing together a range of disparate but linked examples, Brown's text makes for stimulating reading–an essential text for any student of the arts, postcolonialism, and the interaction of science and arts in the postcolonial context.” - Aparna Sharma, \u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rebecca Brown’s elegant and conceptually driven account of modernism focuses on the decades following Independence. . . . Brown’s approach is highly satisfying. By cutting across media and juxtaposing artists whose aesthetic commitments and backgrounds are presented as incommensurate within the internal debates of the Indian art world, Brown challenges the specialist. But she also gives the general reader an overarching sense of what conceptual problems faced Indian artists and, just as importantly, why those problems emerged as such. It is a particularly fitting approach for a period of art history that is dominated by studies focusing on single artists, artist groups, and institutions.” - Karin Zitzewitz, \u003ci\u003eArt History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rebecca M. Brown weaves a rich and layered narrative of Indian postindependence art, connecting painting with a wide range of references that include the architecture of Charles Correa, the ‘high’ cinema of Satyajit Ray, and the demotic art of Bollywood. All the while she balances theoretical sophistication with penetrating insights into the singular achievements of these artists as they negotiate the predicament of local versus global modernism. In the process, she unravels the indebtedness of modernity to colonialism. There has long been a crying need for such a work, and Brown’s pioneering opus fulfills this admirably.”—\u003cb\u003ePartha Mitter\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922–1947\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[R]ecommended for libraries with graduate programs in art history and for others looking to expand their modern and non-Western art history collections.” -- Melissa Aho * ARLIS\/NA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“An interesting contribution, this book will be useful in general and undergraduate libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty\/ researchers; general readers.” -- E. Findly * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Bringing together a range of disparate but linked examples, Brown's text makes for stimulating reading–an essential text for any student of the arts, postcolonialism, and the interaction of science and arts in the postcolonial context.” -- Aparna Sharma * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“Rebecca Brown’s elegant and conceptually driven account of modernism focuses on the decades following Independence. . . . Brown’s approach is highly satisfying. By cutting across media and juxtaposing artists whose aesthetic commitments and backgrounds are presented as incommensurate within the internal debates of the Indian art world, Brown challenges the specialist. But she also gives the general reader an overarching sense of what conceptual problems faced Indian artists and, just as importantly, why those problems emerged as such. It is a particularly fitting approach for a period of art history that is dominated by studies focusing on single artists, artist groups, and institutions.” -- Karin Zitzewitz * Art History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Modern Indian Paradox 1\u003cbr\u003e One. Authenticity 23\u003cbr\u003e Two. The Icon 45\u003cbr\u003e Three. Narrative and Time 75\u003cbr\u003e Four. Science, Technology, and Industry 103\u003cbr\u003e Five. The Urban 131\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The 1980s and After 157\u003cbr\u003e Notes 163\u003cbr\u003e References 171\u003cbr\u003e Index 187","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884712833367,"sku":"9780822343554","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822343554.jpg?v=1722533136","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-for-a-modern-india-19471980-9780822343554","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}