This book accompanies an exhibition of Amit Ambalal's recent paintings at Gallery Espace, New Delhi, in July and August 2008. It offers comprehensive coverage of his oeuvre and includes personal photographs and related materials as well as his paintings. Text by Gayatri Sinha. With biography.

"Amit Ambalal occupies a singular position as a satirist-painter who develops parody, caricature and mimicry into visual tropes. He usually works from the familiar and the domestic outwards, tentatively inhabiting unfamiliar worlds......This essay seeks to locate Amit Ambalal within a particular framework: his own roots in a mercantile family with strong traditions of devotion, his seminal research into the visually opulent 19th century school of Krishna as Shrinathji and the reappearance of this twinned strain through his critique of figures of authority and faith. It covers nearly four decades of a practice marked by keen observation that is enriched through references to signs and visual coda, colloquial references and aphorisms. Ambalal's work may be seen within a critical phase of Indian modernity, his adaptations and resistance, as he seeks to create a language that is both recognizable and intensely personal." - excerpt from inside flap