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Freedom: 60 Years
After
Indian Independence
At sixty, India is strong, vibrant and dynamic.
Confident of its future but proud of its past, this new India is a markedly different place from the country that gained freedom that August midnight in 1947. How this came to be is a fascinating study that this volume records through words and visuals. Essays by finest minds analyze various aspects of the nation’s progress while paintings by India’s best and brightest reveal startling yet enthralling ways of seeing these changes.
A self-assured middle class is one the clearest markers of this new India. Usually seen as an economic classification, the article here by India’s leading sociologist, Andre Beteille, shows, for the first time, how it is also a social formation with certain distinctive features found only in most modern societies. At the same time, former economic advisor and well-known columnist Ashok Desai demolishes shibboleths that have clouded a proper understanding of the Indian economy and its transition from a poor, destitute colony that the British abandoned in despair sixty years ago to its present status as the world’s fourth largest economy.
Aruna Roy, winner of the 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, records her firsthand experience in the making of the Right to Information Act to make political power more accountable and hence shows that the world’s largest democracy really works.
While Oxford historian Tapan Raychaudhuri traces the emergence of Hindu fascism – the other side of our polity.
Another sign of the times is seen in the country’s buoyant media. India’s was always one of the world’s largest film industries but, till recently, it was never much respected, either for the quality of its output or even its sheer size. Today, Bollywood mania envelopes the world. Columnist and television presenter Vir Sanghvi records the making of Bollywood as a global phenomenon. And historian-journalist Rudrangshu Mukherjee traces the history of the country’s fiercely independent print media and its response to the invasion from bullish electronic journalism.
The past however is very much present, in this book as in the whole of India. The learned article by Indologist Roberto Calasso on the SatpathaBrahmanas shows the rich ancient heritage that modern India is built upon.
Memory is the presence of the past and carries with it a text – of loss, absence, nostalgia and pathos. One of Bengal’s most significant, contemporary writers, Sunil Gangopadhyay’s poem, the only poem in this collection, is about the trauma of Partition. In the absence of monuments to commemorate the division of India, literature hascreated the memorials through which India remembers.
The insight offered by the writers is enhanced by artists’ impressions of their homeland. Here, too, the continuum that is India is the guiding principle.
Venerated Masters, like Ramkinkar Baij, Nandalal Bose, V.S. Gaitonde, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Somnath Hore, M.F. Husain, Sailoz Mookherjea, Meera Mukherjee, stand side by side with current luminaries, like Baiju Parthan, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Subodh Gupta, Shakila, as well as midnight’s children like Mona Rai and Amitava Das.
Folk art that transcends the boundaries of conventional art form is represented through works of artists like Bhuribai, Swarna Chitrakar, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Ram Singh Urveti. There can be no doubt that the sixty plates of paintings by sixty artists make this book a collector’s item.
Book Price : INR 2500.00
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Art of Bengal - Past and Present
Art of Bengal - Past and Present is a testimony
of hundred and fifty years of art in the Bengal region. This document is
indeed a celebration as well as an educational journey. It celebrates the
creative achievements of a region gained under colonial bondage and later
in freedom. It is an education because it endeavors to unravel a kind of
creative experimentation that has hardly been portrayed holistically before.
Featuring over two hundred art plates, some from very rare collections,
this book is especially invaluable for art historians, artists, critics
and researchers. Exclusive contributions from leading historians and art
historians specializing on Bengal make this document a vital source material.
'Art of Bengal - Past and Present', endeavors to capture the psychic dislocations
and adjustments, the flair and creative struggle, which are inherent part
of a search for an identity, and portrays the events, issues and sources
which shaped the creative impulse of the people of Bengal.
Price: Rs.3600 |
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Highlight: Lines, Images, Perspective
An attractive catalogue with full color plates of paintings exhibited
by major artists like Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Jatin Das,
Anjolie Ela Menon and others.
Published in 1996
Price: Rs.300 |
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Sidewinder
The catalogue writings are about issues of nationalism's,
homogeneity, the foreign and the familiar. With 35 quality color plates
representing works of Mark Wallinger, Michael Raedecker, Jogen Chowdhury,
Ravinder G. Reddy, Jemima Stehli, Atul Dodiya and others. The catalogue
has been edited by Suhail Malik (Course Leader, Postgraduate Fine Art Critical
Studies, Goldsmiths College) with contributions by well-known authors. Contains
96 pages.
Published in 2002
Price: Rs. 2750 |
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reflections on a century past
At the start of a new millennium,
CIMA Gallery organized one of the most important exhibitions of the year.
A century of art in India was looked at, mainly the different concerns that
artists worked with. The exhibition and catalogue included art works of
Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Sailoz Mookerjea
up to Husain, Ganesh Pyne, Tyeb Mehta and Bikash Bhattacharjee. 54 color
plates exquisitely produced with notes on the major periods in contemporary
Indian art beautifully presented. Excellent gift item as the color plates
can be framed.
Published in 2000
Price: Rs.850
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Autumn Exhibition
Presents emerging trends as well
as significant departures in contemporary Indian art. Contains full color
plates of the works of such artists as Arun Bose, Sakti Burman, Badhan
Das, K. G. Subramanyam and other major artists and represents an exciting
blend of tradition and modernity, a vision and metaphor of an India changing
yet unchanged.
Published in 1995
Price: Rs.100 |
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Trends & Images
The first catalogue brought out by CIMA contains,
an historical overview and articles on the Bengal School and the Modern
Art scene in Bengal by noted art historian Siva Kumar. There are other relevant
articles by eminent personalities which will be of interest to students
of art history. Providing a pan Indian vision of the latest trend in contemporary
art in our country, the catalogue contains several art plates and detailed
bio-data of artists participating in the exhibition.
Published
in 1993
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Chamatkara
This 144-page color catalogue is
currently used as reference material by the Los Angeles County Museum and
other universities and art colleges abroad. It contains interesting and
informative articles on Chamatkara, Traditional art, Folk and Tribal Art,
Contemporary Indian Fine Art, Myth and Fantasy, Concept of Abstraction in
Indian Art and Aesthetic Tradition, and the Confluence of East and West
written by various experts. Besides these articles, there are color plates
of the works of many artists and detailed bio-data of the artists.
Published in 1996
Price: Rs.1000 |
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Abstract 95
An attractive folder catalogue using hand made
textured paper as a cover. Color plates and short profiles of major abstract
artists are included.
Published in 1995
Price: Rs.25 |
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Multimedia Art of the 90's
The 46 individual color plates show,
how art and artists have been impacted upon by the effect of media and technology.
Enveloped in a jute cover with a cord, color plates are suitable for framing.
A write up on the exhibition is included.
Published
in 1998
Price: Rs. 350 |
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Fantasy
This fascinating catalogue on Theme of Camatkara
Fantasy as Art with articles by eminent art historians such as Dr. Siri
Gunasinghe of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Dr.
Partha Mitter and others. Containing full color plates of the works of artists
such as Ganesh Pyne and others and their detailed bio-data.
Contains 80 pages.
Published in 1995
Price: Rs.350 |
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Contemporary Miniatures 1994
Contains interesting articles on the influence
of Miniature Paintings on Contemporary Art by Saryu Doshi and other experts.
Also contains profiles of the artists whose works have been featured in
this 45 page full color catalogue.
Published
in 1994
Price: Rs.300 |
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