The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-47: India’s Artists and the Avant-garde 1922-1947 by Partha Mitter (PDF)

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This richly illustrated book explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. Western avant-garde art inspired a powerful weapon of resistance among India’s artists in their struggle against colonial repression, and it is this complex interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism that is the core of this book.The Triumph of Modernism takes the surprisingly unremarked Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta in 1922 as marking the arrival of European modernism in India. In four broad sections Partha Mitter examines the decline of ‘oriental art’ and the rise of naturalism as well as that of modernism in the 1920s, and the relationship between primitivism and modernism in Indian art: with Mahatma Gandhi inspiring the Indian elite to discover the peasant, the people of the soil became portrayed by artists as ‘noble savages’. A distinct feminine voice also evolved through the rise of female artists. Finally, the author probes the ambivalent relationship between Indian nationalism and imperial patronage of the arts.With a fascinating array of art works, few of which have either been seen or published in the West, The Triumph of Modernism throws much light on a previously neglected strand of modern art and introduces the work of artists who are little known in Europe or America. A book that challenges the dominance of Western modernism, it will be illuminating not just to students and scholars of modernism and Indian art, but to a wide international audience that admires India’s culture and history.

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⭐I love art,…and I truly love Indian Modern Art,….This book illustrates the time period where artists looked beyond colonialist influences of the pre-raphaelite era, and looked to impressionists, post impressionist, and modernist aesthetics and applied these new learned lessons to their own images that have been ingrained in the Indian culture for centuries. There are several chapters and images of artwork on some of the most influential people in the movement including Rabindranath Tagore, and Jamini Roy. I love this book because there is no other like it that I have found on Modern Indian Art.

⭐A must have book for scholars interested in studying the history of modern Indian art from a multidisciplinary approach.

⭐The print quslity seems to be very poor.Reaktion Books need to take care of this.

⭐excellent

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