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 in 1997
With essays by K. G. Subramanyan, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Siva Kumar, Karen Lim
pp. 215
Stiff cards
Size 10.5 x 10 inches
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART
An exhibition of the Festival of India, 1982, at the Royal academy of Arts,London
pp. 100
7-page introduction by Geeta Kapur
44 artists covered. Each given 2-page space with portrait, 1 or 2 illus and bio.
Card covers
Size 9.5 x 8.5 inches
THIRTY INDIAN ARTISTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARDSON HINDUSTAN
Catalogue of exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, in December 1985
2-page prologue by Nissim Ezekiel
1 work of each artist reproduced. 28 of the 30 plates are tipped-in. All the greats of today are represented.
Stiff cards
Size 7 x 6 inches
Rare catalogue of the collection of a company making healthcare products and now known as Procter & Gamble.
TEN CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS FROM INDIA
24-page stapled catalogue of exhibition at University of Florida held c. 1960s
Essays by Dr Grace Morley and Roy Craven
Covers V. S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, Satish Gujral, Krishen Khanna, Jeram Patel, G. R. Santosh, K. G. Subramanyan, Jyotish Bhattacharjee, Bal Chhabda, Biren De with full-page portraits of each.
Softcover / 8 x 8 inches
INDIA - CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
35-page stapled catalogue of exhibition held in 1988 at Victorian Artists Society Galleries in Melbourne
5-page essay by Pranab Ranjan Ray
Includes Bhupen Khakhar, Ganesh Haloi, Rini Dhumal, Jayashree Chakravarty, Devraj Dakoji, Dilip Dasgupta, Nareen Nath
Softcover / 10 x 7.5 inches
ASHTA NAYAK - EIGHT PIONEERS OF INDIAN ART
37-page catalogue of exhibition held in 2005 at Gallery Artsindia, New York
Covers Husain,Souza, Raza, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Padamsee, Gaitonde, Swaminathan
Softcover / 10.5 x 8 inches
HUNGRY GOD - INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
Catalogue of exhibition held at Arario Beijing in 2006
pp. 255 / Text in English and Chinese
Covers 12 artists including Atul Dodiya, Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat, Nalini Malani and Natraj Sharma
Massive hardback
13 x 9.5 inches
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