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Paperback Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 Book

ISBN: 0822343754

ISBN13: 9780822343752

Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980

(Part of the Objects/Histories Series)

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Following India's independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an "Indianness" representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted India's precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism's pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West's dismissal of non-Western...

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