Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980

by Rebecca M. Brown

Book Overview

Following India's independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an "Indianness" representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted India's precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism's pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West's dismissal of non-Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343754
• ISBN13: 9780822343752
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.4"