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13 BOOKS ON MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARTISTS
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ARTISTS
By Geeta Kapur
M.F. Husain, Bhupen Khakhar, Akbar Padamsee, F. N.
Souza, Ram Kumar, J. Swaminathan
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
pp.xxii, 225 with bibliography and index + 72 plates
1979 [reprint of 1978 ed.]
Black cloth binding with dustjacket
Size: 9 x 5.5 inches
A seminal work by India's leading art critic, now quite
scarce. All essays written after extensive conversations
with artists.
Ex-Library copy but with title-page clean. A good copy
without dustjacket
SURFACE AND DEPTH: INDIAN ARTISTS AT WORK
By Rupika Chawla
New Delhi: Viking/ 1995
pp. xii, 299 + 32 colour plates and many b&w
illustrations in the text
Hardback with dustjacket
Size 8.5 x 5.5 inches.br.Using case studies of more than
40 contemporary artists, the author looks at their work
and gives a detailed exposition of the various methods
and techniques they use.
Ex-Library copy
ARTISTES INDIENS EN FRANCE
Rich exhibition catalogue on Indian artists who lived in
France, held in Paris October-November 1985
Text entirely in French
Covers Amrita Sher-Gil, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee,
Raza, Jogen Chowdhury, Rajendra Dhawan, Nalini
Malani, Nasreen Mohamedi, Krishna Reddy,Inderjeet
Sahdev
pp. 60
Card covers
Size: 12 x 8.5 inches
SIX INDIAN PAINTERS
Introduction by GEETA KAPUR
46-page catalogue of Tate Gallery, London, exhibition
held in 1982
Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, M.
F.Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Bhupen Khakhar
Softcover / 8 x 8 inches
INDIA MYTH AND REALITY: Aspects of Modern
Indian Art
Catalogue of exhibition held at Museum of Modern
Art, Oxford, in 1982
Introduction by David Elliott, VictorMusgrave, E. Alkazi
pp. 80 and 4-page list of exhibits loosely inserted
Covers 20 artists including Husain, Souza, Gujral, Raza,
Padamsee, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Khanna, Kaleka,
Broota, Anish Kapoor, Ramachandran.
Includes essays:
The Contemporary Situation in India Art by K. G.
Subramanyan
An Engagement with Reality by Deepak Ananth
Art and Redemption - Ramachandran's Quest by
Krishna Chaitanya
Nalini Malani by Geeta Kapur
Five Poems by Gieve Patel
Four Poems by M. F.Husain
Nirvana of a Maggot by F. N. Souza
Softcover / 8 x 8 inches
Marg magazine [Vol. 38, No. 4; 1985] with the
theme CONTEMPORARY ART - SYNTHESES AND
POLARITIES
A record of the seminar titled East-West Visual Arts
Encounter, heldin Bombayin February 1985 in which
many Indian and western artists took part.
Each artist's transcript and statement is published
together with a portrait and a few representative works.
Among the Indian artists represented are
SOUZA, RAZA, BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE, G.R.
SANTOSH, MANJIT BAWA, JERAM PATEL, PILLOO
POCHKHANAWALA, and BALAN NAMBIAR.
pp. 112
Softcover / 13 x 9.5 inches
TRYST WITH DESTINY: ART FROM MODERN INDIA
1947-1997
Catalogue of exhibition held at SingaporeArt Museum