Midnight to the Boom

Bean, Susan S. [Hrsg.]:
Midnight to the Boom : Painting in India after Independence; from the Peabody Essex Museum's Herwitz Collection / ed. by Susan S. Bean. - London ; New York : Thames & Hudson [u.a.], 2013. - 228 S. : überw. Ill.
ISBN 978-0-500-23893-6
£ 29,95
DDC 759.9540747445

Beschreibung
This is the first in-depth study of the three generations of artists responsible for the development of India’s modernist art. Abundantly illustrated with iconic works of the post-Independence era, Midnight to the Boom tells the story of the exciting developments that occurred in Indian art and culture during this pivotal period.
   After independence, India’s artists faced a particular challenge: how to express the new nation’s distinctive character while entering a global discourse focused on modernism’s universal premises of experimentation and shared human values. In the absence of a dominant aesthetic, painters could turn where they wished and blend as they liked – from Abstract Expressionism to Tantric spiritualism; from Rajasthani painting to changes in India’s complex politics, religions, classes and vernacular life. Their achievements and the country’s unprecedented boom ushered India’s art into a new era of globalism, a soaring international market, and an explosion in the media and technologies of art. [Verlagsinformation]

Herausgeberin
SUSAN S. BEAN, Curator of South Asian and Korean Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., USA

Quellen: Thames & Hudson; Amazon (UK); WorldCat; Library of Congress; Open ISBN
Bildquelle: Thames & Hudson
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