8 Bengal Masters: Miracles of Existence

By Soumik Nandy Majumdar

Published on the occasion of the show '8 Bengal Masters: Miracles of Existence', this volume explores the post-Colonial context of Bengal that produced some of the finest artists of all times. Focusing on eight eminent artists, from various practices of print-making, sculpture and painting, it traces how they embarked on individual artistic journeys fostered by a renewed modernist search for an appropriate style in tandem with their responses to the contemporary situation.

The eight artists showcased here redefined the quest for a personal idiom not as a mere stylistic search but as the intimate and mutually transforming dialogue between individual and the world - both social and natural. From this perspective, this book takes a fresh look at the works of these artists as some of the best examples of the socially-relevant, liberating aesthetics of the post-'40s modern Indian art.

Published in association with Akar Prakar.

Contents: Foreword; Curatorial Note by Sylvie de Gall ani, Curator of departmental museums; Curatorial Note: Miracles of Existence by Soumik Nandy Majumdar
ARTISTS - Paritosh Sen; Somnath Hore; Meera Mukherjee; Sarbari Roy Choudhury; Sanat Kar; Ganesh Haloi; Ganesh Pyne; Jogen Chowdhury.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935677608
• ISBN13: 9781935677604
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Limited
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.5"