Indian contemporary painting
1998, First Edition. New York, N.Y. : Abrams. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #230329
ISBN: 0810934728
Physical description; 478 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm. Notes; Originally published: The flamed-mosaic. Chidamabaram, Ahmedabad, India : Heart, in association with Mapin Pub. ; Middletown, NJ : Grantha Corp., 1997. Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-473) and index. Summary; This is a survey of the past century of Indian painting, incorporating reproductions of 250 works by 80 artists from Rabindranath Tagore to M.F. Husain. The book also has an historical essay, conversations with 35 of today's leading Indian artists, biographical outlines and exhibition histories. The author's aim is to make the entire realm of contemporary Indian art accessible to the general reader by evoking the nuances of the world in which these artists live and work. Subjects; Painting, Indic. Painting, Modern - 20th century - India. Painting, Indic - 20th century. Art, Indian - 20th century - (1950s-1990s). Painting - Asia - India - 20th century. Oriental art ; Painting & paintings. History of art & design styles: from (c 1900 -). India. Art / Asian. Art / Techniques / Painting. Art / Criticism & Theory. Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). Painting, Modern ; 20th century ; India ; Painting, Indic. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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