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9 EARLY BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
ON MODERN PAINTERS
TRENDS IN INDIAN PAINTING: ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL,
MODERN
By Manohar Kaul
Foreword by Dr S. Radhakrishnan
New Delhi: Dhoomimal Ramchand
1961
pp. xv, 232 with 58 tipped-in colour plates [many full-
page] and 76 tipped-in b&w plates across thetext
Size: 13 x 10 inches
Grey rexine with title embossed on cover and with
dustjacket
A rare and important study with more than half the
book relating to modern and contemporary Indian art,
with bibliography and index.
MODERN INDIANPAINTING
By P. R. Ramachandra Rao
French resume by Marcella Hardy
MADRAS: Rachana /1953
pp. [iv], 100 + pp. 38 French resume
Tipped-in frontispiece + 22 colour plates tipped in
across the text + 43 plates with 203 reproductions of
paintings in b&w
size: 13 x 10 inches
Original cloth hardback with red lettering on cover and
spine and the sketch of a dancer on cover.
Comprehensively covers the entire gamut of artists
from Bengal School and Santiniketan to Western
School,Calcutta Group, Delhi, and Madras School with
a chapter discussing Chughtai, Rabindranath Tagore,
Jamini Roy and Sher-Gil. But prudery has prompted the
publishers to tamper with two nudes by Sher-Gil and F.
N. Souza.
PRESENT-DAY PAINTERS OF INDIA
By Manu Thacker and G. Venkatachalam
Bombay: Sudhangshu Publications, Shantaram Lane,
Malabar Hill
Printed at Commercial Printing Press, Fort, Bombay
No date [1950]
pp. xiv, 111 + 1 portrait and 29 plates
pp. xi- xiv is 'In Memoriam' for Manu Thacker who had
died by the time the book came out and has a b&w
portrait facing p. xi.
The book covers the following 29 artists in two parts.
The first part, by Thacker, covers the following 15 artists:
Jagannath Ahivasi, Syed Ahmed, N. S. Bendre, Vajubhai
Bhagat, Shiavax Chavda, Ishwar Dass, Rabindra Dutt, K.
K. Hebbar, Manohara Joshi, Ravishankar Raval, S. H. Raza,
Morarji Sampat, Madhukar Seth, Yagnesh Shukla, Bhanu
Smart.
The second part by Venkatachalam covers the following
14 artists:
Manishi Dey, Pulin Behari Dutt, Dhiren Gandhi,
Gopal Ghosh, Abhay Khatau, Prannath Mago, Kshitin
Mazumdar, Pratima Devi, Jamini Roy, Bhabesh Sanyal,
Lalit Mohan Sen, Amrita Sher Gil, Y. G. Srimati, A. D.
Thomas
The essay about each artist is preceded by a painting by
him.
Bound in beige cloth with Horse motif embossed in red.
Size: 10 x 8 inches
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PAINTERS
By G. Venkatachalam
Bombay: Nalanda Publications
pp. xvi, 120 + 15 plates
Dedicated to Jawaharlal Nehru
Has chapters on 15 artists: Abanindranath Tagore,
Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, K. Venkatappa,
Deviprasad Roychoudhry, M. A. Rahman Chughtai,
Sarada Charan Ukil, Asit Kumar Haldar, Mukul Chandra
Dey, D. Rama Rao, Sunayani Devi, Jamini Roy, Promode
Kumar Chatterjee, Pulin Behari Dutt, Rabindranath
Tagore.
One painting by each artist figures in the book.
Excellently rebound ex-library copy. Title-page clean.
Size: 9.5 x 7.25 inches
TRAVEL DIARY OF AN ART STUDENT [Men and
Monuments]
By G. VENKATACHALAM
Printed at the Modi Power Printing Works, Bangalore
City
Evidently privately published by the author
pp. 260
Softcover with a printed photo of a statue pasted on