Fifty Years of Indian Art

This publication presents the proceedings of the conference 'Fifty Years of Indian Art: Institutions, Issues, Concepts, and Conversations', organized by the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts and held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai from 14-17 January 1997. Biographies of participants included.

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Onsite

publisher

Mohile Parikh Centre for the Visual Arts (Mumbai, India)

editor

Bina Sarkar ELLIAS

Location code

REF.MPC

Language

English

Keyword

art theory, art criticism, India

Publication/Creation date

1998

No of pages

231

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Institutions

Fifty Years of Independence: A Historical Survey - Irfan HABIB

Instituting the Nation in Art - Tapati GUHA-THAKURTA

Modern Indian Art: 'Art Movements' and Social Space - Shivaji K. PANIKKAR

Publications, Magazines, Journals, Polemics - Ratan PARIMOO

The Role of Government in Defining Modern Indian Aesthetics and the Emergence of Delhi as the New Centre of Art 1940s-1950s - Sundaram TAGORE

Issues: Tradition, Modernism, Post-Modernism

How the Past was Regained by Indian Artists During the Swadeshi Era (c. 1850-1910) - Partha MITTER

Modernist Inventions - Yashodhara DALMIA

'Modernity and Modernism in Asia: A Regional Perspective' Issues: Tradition, Modernism, Post-Modernism - Apinan POSHYANANDA, อภินันท์ โปษยานนท์

Post-Independence Kala Bhavan, Vishwabharati, Santiniketan - Pranabranjan RAY

Locating the Post-Modern - Thomas MCEVILLEY

Not This Not That and Lots Besides: The Post-Modern Spirit and Indian Art - Himanshu BURTE

Concepts

The Human Presence - Gieve PATEL

The Concept of Representation - Prashant PARIKH

Space - Tasneem Zakaria MEHTA

Abstraction in Indian Modernism - Avani PARIKH

Private Languages and the Public Sphere: Acts of Negotiation between Modern Indian Art and its Changing Public (1895-1996) - Ranjit HOSKOTE

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Art Writing