India is a nation of conflicting realities, where the old and the new, the traditional and modern regularly coexist. Here, the artists are concerned not solely with telling their own tales but also with exploring what it means to live in a nation steeped in tradition. <\/p>\n
Within the context of modern and contemporary India, works on paper offered artists a way of cultivating transnational modernist expression while continuing to explore the potential of a medium that had deeper roots in older artistic traditions native to the subcontinent. This volume features over 100 watercolors, drawings, etchings, sketches and lithographs by senior Indian modernists, born primarily before the 1950s and who came of age in the decades directly following Independence in 1947. These artists span the transition from colonial to post-colonial India, embracing both realism and abstraction, exploring complex metaphors, and making political statements that directly engage India’s past, present, and future.<\/p>\n
With contributions by Tamara Sears, Michael Mackenzie, Paula Sengupta, Emma Oslé, Darielle Mason, Rebecca M. Brown, Jeffrey Wechsler, Kishore Singh and Swathi Gorle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This volume features over 100 watercolors, drawings, etchings, sketches and lithographs by senior Indian modernists, spanning the transition from colonial to post-colonial India.
Foreword
\nDirector’s Acknowledgement
\nCurator’s Preface and Acknowledgements
\nESSAYS
\nIntroduction by Michael Mackenzie
\nThe Intimacy of Paper by Tamara Sears
\nA Brief History of Printmaking in India by Paula Sengupta
\nAn Aesthetics of Borders, Globalization, and Migration in Post-Partition India by Emma Oslé
\nAncient Narratives of Devotion: Continuity, Transformation, Rejection by Darielle Mason
\nCacophonies and Silence: Hearing Abstraction by Rebecca Brown
\nCATALOG
\nTopographic Engagements
\nNarrative
\nPolitics and Social Critique
\nMyth and Religion
\nPortraits\/Personas
\nAbstraction
\nThe Collections of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur
\nAbout the Contributors
\nSources of Illustrations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37478","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-tamara-sears","8":"publisher-mapin-publishing-gp-pty-ltd","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n