「館藏推介」系列邀請特約作者就特定主題精選亞洲藝術文獻庫藏品，並撰寫簡介。以下館藏推介由藝術家及學者Shukla Sawant編撰，主題為印度當代藝術的各個面向。
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Introduction
Critical commentary on art as a self-reflexive discipline within the modernist context has a relatively long history in India. Largely the preserve of artists commenting on their contemporaries, or else elaborations on art by literary figures, criticism as a publically shared opinion is closely tied to the emergence of print journalism and its explosion in the late-nineteenth century. Yet poor archiving of periodicals and newspapers has meant that a lot of early contemporary art criticism is now lost. Moreover, given the diversity of cultural and linguistic strands that exist in this vast subcontinent, the debates on art are also difficult to map or enumerate in the form of a bibliography of key readings, for a number of animated discussions on art and aesthetics have been carried out in the regional language press, rather than in the preferred language of communication in the urban centers of India: English. By way of introductory texts, scholarly analysis by art historians such as Partha Mitter (1994, 2007) and Tapati Guha Thakurta (1992), whose writings are based on detailed archival work citing regional language sources as well as the English language press are particularly rewarding. They provide a substantial historical introduction in the form of short biographical sketches of artists, their social milieus, details about their oeuvres, and critical insights into the emerging world of modernism from the late-nineteenth century onwards. Their meaningful investigation of the interface and overlap between art worlds across the globe and the mapping of processes of cultural exchange through intercultural dialogues between influential figures of the time is a good initiation point for anyone interested in understanding the networked nature of modernism. Perhaps the most cited book is W. G. Archer’s (1959) conception of modernism as a history of canonical individual figures, who contributed to the establishment of modern art—passing from a proto-modern sensibility to a fully articulated, individualised autonomy of the artist. Two other useful overviews edited by Gayatri Sinha (2003, 2009) are a compilation of essays by a number of different scholars, of which the latter broadly addresses the emerging concerns of "new art history," by bringing on board analytical essays on popular culture and photography, besides other key discussions on modernism. The former book carries chronologically ordered and medium-specific essays by a number of different writers giving an overview of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. A recent, critically well-theorised overview by Rebecca Brown (2009) examines in detail the subtle undercurrents that shaped modernism after 1947. However for an overarching theoretical frame, Geeta Kapur’s seminal essay "When Was Modernism," which is also the title of her book of essays (2000); in which she places modernism in a double discourse with nationalism and asserts that the trajectory of modernism in India is therefore "alternately conservative and progressive," is essential reading for anyone engaging with contemporary art in India.
The second section of the guide lists publications that engage with institutional history and the formation of collectives. A number of them are commemorative in nature, brought out in conjunction with centenary celebrations of educational establishments and art societies. Historical accounts by N. M. Kelkar (n. d.), J. C. Bagal (1966) and B. Sadwalkar (1989) offer interesting insights into the workings of these early institutions. On the other hand, a decade later, we see a more significant, tightly focused form of critical writing and the recovery of history that focuses on the social history of art and its institutional location. R. Shivakumar’s curatorial catalogue essay for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi on Santiniketan (1997) provides an insightful account of this utopian experiment in art education. G. Sheikh’s edited volume on the history of contemporary art in Baroda (1997) is based on detailed archival work and includes perceptive essays by leading scholars of the Baroda school. Owing much to the individual will of visionary educators these two institutes, namely the Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, the rural retreat set up by the poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and the Art Department of Maharaja Sayajirao University which owes its existence to the educator Hansa Mehta, are celebrated centers for the dissemination of modernism and for shaping the discipline of art history itself.
The tendency to collectivise however was largely a family affair in early modernism in India and Parimoo’s seminal study of the creative output of the Tagore family (1973), foregrounds the role of cohort circles that formed around charismatic individuals within such formations, and the pan-Indian influence that they came to exert. Subsequent breakaway formations, largely group efforts by artists in the 1940s such as the acclaimed Bombay Progressives and their attempts to circumvent institutional control, have been the subject of close scrutiny for several years, with a mass of material being produced on individuals within the group and their brief life as a collective. Y. Dalmia’s publication (2001) gives an historical perspective of its early years, while C. Sambrani’s essay (2003) gives a critical perspective on the notion of "progressivism." Two other formations, the contemporary to the progressives—The Calcutta Group and the Delhi Silpi Chakra—have only recently been subjected to close scrutiny and theorisation by P. Mago (1997) and S. Mallik (2004) respectively. One significant formation of the 1960s, the Cholamandalam artists’ village, arising from the efforts of the artist educator K. C. S. Paniker, and premised on the construction of an indigenous identity aimed at problematising the universalising concepts of high modernism, has been discussed at length by Joseph James (2004). The recently published selection of writings from their journal Artrends (2011) throws additional light on this group.
The third section of the guide lists specific texts such as opinion pieces and manifestos that have impacted art-making in many different ways. From the early-twentieth century theoretical elaborations of A. K. Coomaraswamy, E. B. Havel, and O. C. Gangoly, to the more recent significant contributions by F. N. Souza, Geeta Kapur, J. Swaminathan, and Anita Dube among others, textual critical interventions have played a significant role in shaping decisive shifts in art making. Some essays do not necessarily reflect individual views but rather are collective opinions penned by the most articulate members of group formations and coterie circuits. By way of an entry point, the epistolary exchanges of opinion published in the journal Rupam by Benoy Kumar Sarkar after the publication of his manifesto "The Aesthetics of Young India" (1922) and rejoinders from his critical challengers—Gangoly O. C. (1922) and Kramrisch S. (1922)—offer contemporary scholars an interesting insight into the public culture of debate that began to emerge in the early-twentieth century. Perhaps the most widely read texts of the period are the writings on art by Abanindranath and Rabindranath Tagore. Possibly the most impactful writings by an artist in India are the often acerbic, programmatic writings by F. N. Souza whose early socialist preoccupations were soon to shift to more formal concerns. Subsequently, the novelist and critic Mulk Raj Anand’s contributions; primarily to the art journal MARG which he founded in 1946 and Richard Bartholomew’s critical opinions, penned for the Lalit Kala Contemporary (1976) and the numerous articles he contributed to Thought (1958) led to the development of a critical language, indispensable for the establishment of a more complex understanding of art practice; its most nuanced practitioner being the artist pedagogue K. G. Subramanyan. In sharp contrast, the argumentative voice of J. Swaminathan channeled through his journal Contra (which had a very brief life), and subsequently the writings of Anita Dube (1985, 1987) in support of the Kerala Radicals, an artists’ collective of the 1980s, are polemical interludes which were clearly penned with an awareness of the manifesto as a modernist proclamatory form, given the fact that Swaminathan was involved with left-wing confrontational politics and Dube had trained as an art critic.
The role of ideological operations in representation has in recent years been highlighted by several writers who have dismantled the claims of modernism as a universal utopian project. Focusing instead on the fault lines of gender, caste, and regional identity to demonstrate that the rhetoric of universalism, upon which modernism is purportedly based, is an imperfect project, difference and otherness mark the writing of critics concerned with highlighting minority positions.
Since the 1990s for example, Jyotrindra Jain has made a concerted attempt to bring visibility to the work of "other masters" by questioning art historical systems that negate categories of the ritual, and the craft object, which in fact, since the project of the museumisation of objects began, forms the core of all such art historical collections. His efforts to bring into the ambit of art historical discourse contemporary "folkloric" practices by artists from institutional backgrounds, and his engagement with popular culture have led to the publication of several volumes of which the most notable contribution is his book on Kalighat paintings. One witnesses a further interrogation of art history’s biases in the feminist critique mounted by Gayatri Sinha and Geeta Kapur. Sinha’s concerted efforts to focus on women’s work has resulted in several publications (1996, 2006), and Kapur’s recent contribution to the catalogue of the widely discussed exhibition Global Feminisms, is of immense significance.
The question of caste dynamics, an issue which has largely been marginalised by mainstream art historians, has gained significant weight in recent years. G. M. Tartakov and Kajari Jain in their writings highlight the visual culture of Dalits (outcasts who use this term as an act of assertion and to draw attention to their condition) focusing primarily on the politics of public monuments and print culture. On the other hand Y. S. Alone has concentrated on the exclusionary politics of pedagogy and art writing, along with throwing light on contemporary Dalit artists who contest mainstream representational conventions by bringing into view their own erased histories.
In the increasingly complex network of exhibitions outside India, anchored to the figure of the curator as mediator, catalogue essays and curatorial polemics have come to mirror the broader developments within the globalisation of the art world. The year 1989 which saw the staging of the exhibition Les Magicienne de la terre at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is considered to be significant in this context. A number of exhibitions such as the Festival of India series of international shows programmed by the Indian government in the 1980s had to a great extent already blurred the center-periphery model with Geeta Kapur emerging as the singular curatorial authority for these exhibitions. A number of international exhibitions thereafter, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, Gayatri Sinha, Nancy Adajania, Sunil Gupta, and Raqs Media Collective have since then dismantled the biographical approach to exhibition-making (primarily connected to state sponsored nationalism), with the latter in particular making art a vehicle of the state’s internationalist concerns.
The second-to-last section gives a list of medium-specific essays, in keeping with modernism’s key tenet of exploring the internal formal properties of each technique. This is followed by a selected bibliography of catalogue essays on individual artists and motivated by the fact that a large body of writing on art in recent years has taken this particular form. While such essays are rarely "critical," they do offer documentation of the thought processes and working methods of artists.
Recommended Readings
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY
Ghose, D. C., Bibliography of Modern Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1980 [English] REF.GHD
Joshi, Jyotish, ed., Artists Directory 2006, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2006 [English] REFL.LKA
ART HISTORICAL OVERVIEWS
Appasamy, J., 25 Years of Indian Art: Painting, Sculpture & Graphics in the Post-Independence Era, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1972 [English] not yet available
Appasamy, Jaya, The Critical Vision: Selected Writings, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1985 [English] REF.APJ
Archer, W. G., India and Modern Art, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959 [English] REF.ARW
Aryan, K. C., 100 Years Survey of Punjab Painting, (1841–1941), Punjabi University, Patiala, 1975 [English] REF.ARK1
Brown, Rebecca M., Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980, Duke University Press, London, 2009[English] REF.BRR
Dalmia, Yashodhara, Chaitanya Sambrani, et al., Indian Contemporary Art Post-Independence, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2000 [English] REFL.VAG
Dalmia, Yashodhara, Salima Hashmi, Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007 [English] REF.DAY
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati, The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c. 1850–1920, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992 [English] REF.TGT
Kapur, Geeta, ‘A Stake in Modernity: Brief History of Contemporary Indian Art’, Tradition and Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, Caroline Turner, ed., University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1993 [English] REF.TUC
Kapur, Geeta, Contemporary Indian Art, Indian Advisory Committee, Festival of India, London, 1982 [English]EX.UNK.CIA
Kapur, Geeta, Chaitanya Sambrani, Crossing Generations: diVERGE: Forty Years of Gallery Chemould, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2004 [English] EX.IND.CGD
Kapur, Geeta, When was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2000 [English] REF.KAG2
Mitter, Partha, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850–1922, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994 [English] REF.MIP3
Mitter, Partha, The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922–1947, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007 [English] REF.MIP3
Mukhopadhyay, Amit, The Art Situation before 1940, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1985 [English] CLP.85
Panikkar, Shivaji, ed., Twentieth-Century Indian Sculpture: The Last Two Decades, Marg, Mumbai, 2000 [English] REFL.PSK
Parimu, Ratan, Modern Movement in Indian Sculpture, Kalavritt, Jaipur, 1990 [English] PER.KAL
Pijnappel, Johan, Betty Seid, New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, 2007 [English] EX.USA.NEN
Pooja, Sood, ed., The Khoj Book: 1997–2007: Contemporary Art Practice in India, HarperCollins Publishers, Noida, 2010 [English] REFL.SOP2
Pradhan, Sudhi, Marxist Cultural Movement in India: Chronicles and Documents (1936–47), National Book Agency, Calcutta, 1979 [English] REF.PRS3
Purohit, V., Arts of Transitional India, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1988 [English] not yet available
Ramachandra Rao, P. R., Modern Indian Painting, Rachana, Madras, 1953 [English & French] REFL.RAP6
Sinha, Gayatri, ed., Indian Art: An Overview, Rupa & Co., New Delhi, 2003 [English] REF.SIG2
Sinha, Gayatri, ed., Art and Visual Culture in India 1857–2007, Marg Publications, Mumbai, 2009 [English] REFL.SIG2
INSTITUTIONAL FOCUS/ ARTISTS’ GROUPS
ARTRENDS: A Contemporary Art Bulletin, Progressive Painters Association, Chennai, 2011 [English] PER.ARTR
Bagal, J. C., Centenary: Government College of Art and Craft Calcutta, 1864–1964, Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, 1966 [English] not yet available
Dalmia, Yashodhara, The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001 [English] REF.DAY1
Das Gupta, Prodosh, ‘The Calcutta Group: Its Aims and Achievements’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, April 1981 [English] CLP.81.04
Dasgupta, Uma, Mushirul Hasan, ed., ‘Santiniketan: The School of a Poet’, Knowledge, Power & Politics: Educational Institutions in India, The Lotus Collection, New Delhi, 1998 [English] REF.HAM7
Gladstone Solomon, W.E., The Bombay Revival of Indian Art, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, 1924 [English] REF.SOW
James, Josef, ed., Cholamandal: An Artists' Village, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2004 [English] REF.JAJ3
Kelkar, N. M., The Story of the Sir J.J. School of Art: 1857–1957, Government of Maharashtra and Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, n.d. [not yet available]
Mago, P. N., Delhi Silpi Chakra: The Early Years, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 1998 [not yet available]
Mallik, Sanjoy, ‘The “Calcutta Group” (1943–1953)’, Art & Deal, New Delhi, 2004 [English] PER.ADL
Parimoo, Ratan, Art of Three Tagores: From Revival to Modernity, Kumar Gallery (P) Ltd., New Delhi, 2011 [English] REFL.PAR4
Sadwelkar, B., Story of a Hundred Years: Bombay Art Society 1888–1988, Bombay Art Society, Bombay, 1989 [not yet available]
Sambrani, Chaitanya, ‘The Progressive Artists’ Group’, Indian Art: An Overview, Gayatri Sinha, ed., Rupa & Co., New Delhi, 2003 [English]REF.SIG2
Sheikh, Gulammohammed, ed., Contemporary Art in Baroda, Tulika, New Delhi, 1997 [English] REF.SHG2
Siva Kumar, R., Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 1997 [English] EX.IND.SMC
CRITICAL OPINION PIECES AND MANIFESTOES
Agastya, ‘The Aesthetics of Young India: A Rejoinder’, Rupam, Calcutta, January 1922, pp 24–27 [English] CLP.22.01
Anand, Mulk Raj, ‘The Artist as Hero’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1968 [English] PER.LKC
Bartholomew, Richard, ‘Nature and Abstraction—An Enquiry into Their Interaction’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1977, no. 23, pp 24–30 [English] CLP.77
Bartholomew, Richard, ‘A Short Biography of the Lalit Kala Akademi’, Thought, 21 November 1959 [English] CLP.59.11.21
Bartholomew, Richard, ‘The World of Sailoz Mookherjea’, Thought, 15 October 1960, pp 34–39 [English] CLP.60.10.15
Chaitanya, S., ‘The Progressive Artists Group’, Indian Art: An Overview, Gayatri Sinha, ed., Rupa & Co, New Delhi, 2003, pp 96–111 [English] REF.SIG2
Coomaraswamy, A. K., 'The Aim of Indian Art', Modern Review, 1908, vol. 3, no. 1 not yet available
Dube, Anita, Questions and Dialogue, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda, 1987 [English] EX.IND.QUD
Kapur, Geeta, ‘Francis Newton Souza: Devil in the Flesh’, Third Text, London, 1989, no. 8 & 9, pp 25–64 [English] PER.THT
Kapur, Geeta, ‘Partisan Views about the Human Figure’, Place for People, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, 1981 [English] CLP.81
Kapur, Geeta, Pictorial Space: A Point of View on Contemporary Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1977 [English] EX.IND.PSP
Kapur, Geeta, When was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2000 [English] REF.KAG2
Kramrisch, Stella, ‘The Aesthetics of Young India’, ‘A Rejoinder’, Rupam, Calcutta, April 1922, pp 66–67 [English] CLP.22.04
Neogy, Prithwish, ed., Rabindranath Tagore on Art and Aesthetics: A Selection of Lectures, Essays and Letters, Subarnarekha, Kolkata, 1961 [English] REF.TAR1
Paz, Octavio, ‘Surrounded by Infinity...’, Group 1890, Group 1890, New Delhi, 1963 [English] EX.IND.GOE
Paniker, K. C. S., ‘Contemporary Painters and Metaphysical Elements in the Art of the Past’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1971, no. 12, pp 11–12 [English] CLP.71
Panikkar, Shivaji, ‘Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association: The Crisis of Political Art in Contemporary India’, Creative Arts in Modern India: Essays in Comparative Criticism, Ratan Parimoo, Indramohan Sharma, eds., Books and Books, New Delhi, 1995, pp 604–626 [English] REF.PAR3
Sarkar, Benoy Kumar, ‘Tendencies of Modern Indian Art’, Rupam, Calcutta, 1926, pp 55–58 [English] CLP.26
Sarkar, Benoy Kumar, ‘Social Philosophy in Aesthetics’, Rupam, Calcutta, July–December 1923, pp 88–99 [English] CLP.23.07
Sarkar, Benoy Kumar, ‘The Aesthetics of Young India’, Rupam, Calcutta, January 1922, pp 8–24 [English] CLP.22.01
Seven Young Sculptors, Kasauli Art Centre, New Delhi, 1985 [English] EX.IND.SYS
Souza, Francis N., ‘Nirvana of a Maggot’ [1955], Third Text, London, 1992, no. 19, pp 40–48 [English] PER.THT
Subramanyan, K. G., The Creative Circuit, Seagull Books, Calcutta, 1992 [English] REF.SUK
Subramanyan, K. G., The Living Tradition: Perspectives on Modern Indian Art, Seagull Books, Calcutta, 1987 [English] REF.SUK
Subramanyan, K. G., Moving Focus: Essays on Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1978 [English] REF.SUK1
Swaminathan, J., ‘The Cygan—An Auto Bio Note’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1995, special issue on J. Swaminathan, no. 40, pp 7–13 [English] PER.LKC
Tagore, Rabindranath, Nationalism, Penguin Group, London, 2010 [English] REF.TAR
FEMINIST AND MINORITY POSITIONS
Alone, Y. S., ‘Tradition and Practices: Cultural Confronts’, Nirukta: The Journal of Art History and Aesthetics, Baroda, 2006 not yet available
Alone, Y. S., ‘Visual Tradition and Art Pedagogy: Perception of Exclusions’, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Policy Research and Action (IPRA), 2008 not yet available
Andrews, Jorella, et al., ‘Telling Tales: Five Contemporary Women Artists from India’, Third Text, London, 1998 [English] PER.THT
Cherry, Deborah, Janice Helland, eds., Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, 2006 [English] REF.CHD
Jamal, Osman, 'E.B. Havell: The Art and Politics of Indianness', Third Text, London, 1997 [English] PER.THT
Jamal, Osman, ‘EB Havell and Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism, Modernity and Art', Third Text, London, 2000 [English] PER.THT
Kapur, Geeta, ‘Gender Mobility: Through the Lens of Five Women Artists in India’, Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin, eds., Merrell Publishers, London, 2007 [English] EX.USA.GLF
Roy, Parama, ‘Women, Hunger, and Famine: Bengal, 1350/1943’, Women of India: Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods, Bharati Ray, ed., Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005 [English] REF.RAB
Sinha, Gayatri, ed., Expressions and Evocations: Contemporary Women Artists of India, Marg Publications, Mumbai, 1996 [English] REFL.SIG2
Thakurta, Tapati Guha, ‘Women as "Calendar Art" Icons: Emergence of Pictorial Stereotype in Colonial India’, Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, 26 October 1991 [English] CLP.91.10.26
Tartakov, Gary Michael, ‘Art and Identity: The Rise of a New Buddhist Imagery’, Art Journal, New York, Winter 1990 [English] CLP.90.12
POPULAR CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART
Appasamy, J., ‘Early Calcutta Lithographs’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1981, no. 31, pp 13–16 [English] CLP.81.04
Appasamy, J., ‘Early Oil Painting in Bengal’, Lalit Kala Contemporary, New Delhi, 1985, no. 32, pp 5–9 [English] CLP.85.04
Archer, William George, Kalighat Paintings: A Catalogue and Introduction, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1971 [English] REF.ARW
Chatterjee, Ratnabali, From the Karkhana to the Studio: A Study in the Changing Social Roles of Patron and Artist in Bengal, Books & Books, New Delhi, 1990 [English] REF.CHR4
Davis, Richard, ‘From the Wedding Chamber to the Museum: Relocating the Ritual Arts of Madhubani’, What's the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context, Jan Mrázek, Morgan Pitelka, eds., University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2008, pp 77–99 [English] REF.MRJ
Jain, Jyotindra, Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting, Grantha Corporation, Middle Town, 1997 [English] MON.DEG
Jain, Jyotindra, Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World, Mapin, Ahmedabad, 1999 [English] REF.JAJ4
Jain, Jyotindra, ed., Other Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India, Crafts Museum and The Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India ltd., New Delhi, 1998 [English] REF.JAJ4
Jain, Kajri, Gods in the Bazaar: the Economies of Indian Calendar Art, Duke University Press, Durham, 2007 [English] REF.JAK4
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Araeen, Rasheed, ‘Our Bauhaus Others' Mudhouse’, Third Text, London, 1989, special issue on ‘Magicien de la Terre’, no. 6, pp 3–14 [English] PER.THT
Bean, Susan S., Timeless Visions: Contemporary Art of India from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, 1999 [English] EX.USA.TIV
Buchloh, Benjamin, Jean-Hubert Martin, ‘Interview’, Third Text, London, 1989, special issue on ‘Magicien de la Terre’, no. 6, pp 19–27 [English] PER.THT
Fitz, Angelika, ed., Capital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002 [English & German] EX.AUT.CKR
Kapur, Geeta, Contemporary Indian Art, Indian Advisory Committee, Festival of India, London, 1982 [English] EX.UNK.CIA
Kapur, Geeta, ‘Dismantling the Norm’, Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions / Tensions, Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1996, pp 60–69 [English] EX.USA.CAA
Kapur, Geeta, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, ‘Bombay / Mumbai: 1992–2001’, Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Iwona Blazwick, ed., Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd, London, 2001, pp 16–41 [English] EX.UNK.CCA
Karode, Roobina, ‘Fresh Signs of Digression and Direction in Contemporary Indian Art’, The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, 1999, pp 226–228 [Japanese & English] EX.JAP.FUT.1999
Nancy, Adajania, Zoom! Art in Contemporary India, Luis Serpa, Culturgest, Lisbon, 2004 [English & Portuguese] EX.POR.ZAC
Poppi, Cesare, ‘From the Suburbs of the Global Village: Afterthoughts on “Magiciens de laTerre”’, Third Text, London, 1991, no.14, pp 85–96 [English] PER.THT
Sambrani, Chaitanya, et al., Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2005 [English] EX.UNK.EOD
Sinha, Gayatri, Watching Me Watching India: Contemporary Photography in India, Fotographie Forum, Frankfurt, 2006 not yet available
MEDIUM-SPECIFIC STUDIES
Contemporary Sculpture
Ananth, Deepak, ‘The Knots are Many, but the Thread is One: Mrinalini Mukherjee's Hemp Sculpture’, ArtAsiaPacific, New York, 1996, vol. 3, no. 4, pp 84–89 [English] PER.AAP
Appasamy, Jaya, An Introduction to Modern Indian Sculpture, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi, 1970 [English] REF.APJ1
James, Josef, Contemporary Indian Sculpture: The Madras Metaphor, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993 [English] REF.JAJ3
Photography and Printmaking
Gadihoke, Sabeena, India in Focus: Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 2010 [English] MON.VYH
Graphic Art in India Since 1850, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1985 [English] not yet available
Gupta, Sunil, Click! Contemporary Photography in India, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2008 [English] EX.IND.CCP
Ogg, Kirsty, ed., Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan & Bangladesh, Steidl, Goettingen, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 2010 [English & German] EX.UNK.WTD
Pinney, Christopher, Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs, Reaktion Books, London, 1998 [English] REF.PIC
Sharma, Satish, et al., A Shifting Focus: Photography in India 1850–1900, The British Council, London, 1995 [English] EX.IND.SFP
Sharma, Satish, ‘Rotigraphy: Indian Street Photography’, ArtAsiaPacific, New York, 1997, no.13, pp 80–85 [English] PER.AAP
Sinha, Gayatri, Middle Age Spread: Imaging India 1947–2004, National Museum, New Delhi, 2004 [English] EX.IND.MAS
Srivatsan, R., Conditions of Visibility: Writings on Photography in Contemporary India, STREE, Calcutta, 2000 [English] REF.SRR
Thomas, G., History of Photography: India 1840–1980, Andhra Pradesh State Akademi of Photography, Hyderabad, 1981 [English] not yet available
New Media Art
Adajania, Nancy, ‘New Media Overtures Before New Media Practice in India’, Art and Visual Culture in India 1857–2007, Gayatri Sinha, ed., Marg Publications, Mumbai, 2009, pp 266–281 [English] REFL.SIG2
Art India, Mumbai, 2002, vol. 7, issue 1 (special issue on net culture) [English] PER.ARN
Pijnappel, Johan, ed., CC: Crossing Currents: Video Art and Cultural Identity, Royal Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi, 2006 [English] EX.IND.CCV
Pijnappel, Johan, Pooja Sood, Video Art in India, Apeejay Press, n.d. [English] not yet available
Sengupta, Shuddhabrata, ‘The Fickleness of Novelty—Notes towards a Speculative History of New Media in South Asia’, Visual Arts—The India Habitat Centre’s Art Journal, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2009 [English] not yet available
MONOGRAPHS/ CATALOGUES ON ARTISTS
Chawla, Rupika, Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India, Mapin, Ahmedabad, 2014 [English] MON.VAR3
Chawla, Rupika, Ramachandran, Art of the Muralist, A Kala Yatra / Sista's Publication, 1994 [English] not yet available
Fibicher, Benjamin, ed., Nalini Malani—Splitting the Other: Retrospective 1992–2009, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2010 [English & French] MON.MAN
Gupta, Shilpa, There is no Border Here, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Appejay Media Gallery, New Delhi, 2007 [English] not yet available
Hoskote, Ranjit, et al., Tyeb Mehta: Ideas Images Exchanges, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2011 [English] MON.MET
Hyman, Timothy, Bhupen Khakhar, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, 1998 [English] MON.KHB
Kumar, R. Siva, Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore, Pratikshan, Kolkata, 2008 [English] MON.TAA7
Kumar, R. Siva, Ramachandran: A Retrospective, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2003 [English] MON.RAA5
Kumar, R. Siva, Ramkinkar Baij: A Retrospective 1906–1980, Delhi Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2012 [English] MONL.BAR3
Mallik, Sanjoy Kumar, Chittaprosad: A Retrospective 1915–1978, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2011 [English] MON.CHI2
Mukherji, Parul Dave, Eyes Re-Cast: An Exhibition by Savi Savarkar, University of Michigan, 2009 [English] not yet available
Ramaswamy, Sumathi, ed., Barefoot Across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husian and the Idea of India, Routledge, Oxon, 2011[English] MON.HUM
Sheikh, Gulammohammed, et al., Benodebehari Mukherjee: A Centenary Retrospective Exhibition, Vadehra Art Gallery, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2007 [English] MONL.MUB
Sundaram, Vivan, ed., Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2010 [English] MON.SHA2