Amrita Sher-Gil

Art and Life, A Reader

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ISBN:

9780198098867

Publication date:

07/10/2014

Paperback

392 pages

241.0x159.0mm

Price: 1195.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780198098867

Publication date:

07/10/2014

Paperback

392 pages

241.0x159.0mm

Yashodhara Dalmia

Born to Indian and Hungarian parents, and trained in Paris, Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) is considered an icon in the art world who left behind a rich legacy that blends elements from the West and the East. Bringing together essays by eminent art historians and scholars, and rare visuals from her life and of her paintings, this volume reflects on Amrita's brief but illustrious career and creates awareness about the greatness of her art.

Suitable for: General readers, art lovers, Amrita Sher-Gil enthusiasts, and students and scholars of fine arts

Rights:  World Rights

Yashodhara Dalmia

Description

Unacknowledged during her life and considered an icon post her death, between these polarities lies the journey and the struggle for expression of one of the most enterprising and innovative artists of our times, Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941).   Did the Ajanta Caves and Gauguin influence Amrita’s works? How was she as a person and as an artist? Was her work in India indeed of unequal quality as often considered to be? In this collection, Karl Khandalavala, G.H.R. Tillotson, K.G. Subramanyan, and N. Iqbal Singh, among others, ponder these and other aspects of Amrita’s short but impactful life dedicated to art. With Charles Fabri’s fictional account of the travails of a young artist in Lahore in the 1940s carrying an unmistakable resemblance with the influential and avant-garde artist, the volume also includes a piece by Amrita on her evolution as an artist.   Accompanied by rare black and white and colour visuals, this book brings together modern and contemporary critiques as well as early writings by past masters that have largely remained inaccessible until now.

Yashodhara Dalmia

Table of contents

List of Photographs

Introduction by Yashodhara Dalmia
Plate section (between pp. 154 and 155)
 
PROCESSES OF ART
 
1. Evolution of My Art by Amrita Sher-Gil
2. Notes towards a Biography of Amrita Sher-Gil by Charles Fabri
3. Amrita Sher-Gil: An Artistic Evaluation by Karl Khandalavala
4. Amrita Sher-Gil: A Genuine Artist—Striving for Excellence by Esther Rahim
5. Amrita Sher-Gil and the East-West Dilemma by K.G. Subramanyan
6. The Doomed Romantic by Nissim Ezekiel
7. Transformation of the Pre-modern to the Modern in Early Twentieth-century Indian Art by Yashodhara Dalmia
8. Amrita Sher-Gil: The Indian Painter and Her French and Hungarian Connections by Katalin Keserü
9. A Painter of Concern: Critical Writings on Amrita Sher-Gil by G.H.R. Tillotson
10. Amrita Sher-Gil: Painter Par Excellence—The Unfolding of Art by N. Iqbal Singh
 
MYTHIC ENCOUNTERS
 
11. Charles Fabri: An Iconoclastic Vision by Yashodhara Dalmia
12. Indian Flamingo: A Novel of Modern India by Charles Fabri
 
Acknowledgements 
Bibliography 
Index 
About the Editor and Contributors

Yashodhara Dalmia

Yashodhara Dalmia

Yashodhara Dalmia

Description

Unacknowledged during her life and considered an icon post her death, between these polarities lies the journey and the struggle for expression of one of the most enterprising and innovative artists of our times, Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941).   Did the Ajanta Caves and Gauguin influence Amrita’s works? How was she as a person and as an artist? Was her work in India indeed of unequal quality as often considered to be? In this collection, Karl Khandalavala, G.H.R. Tillotson, K.G. Subramanyan, and N. Iqbal Singh, among others, ponder these and other aspects of Amrita’s short but impactful life dedicated to art. With Charles Fabri’s fictional account of the travails of a young artist in Lahore in the 1940s carrying an unmistakable resemblance with the influential and avant-garde artist, the volume also includes a piece by Amrita on her evolution as an artist.   Accompanied by rare black and white and colour visuals, this book brings together modern and contemporary critiques as well as early writings by past masters that have largely remained inaccessible until now.

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Table of contents

List of Photographs

Introduction by Yashodhara Dalmia
Plate section (between pp. 154 and 155)
 
PROCESSES OF ART
 
1. Evolution of My Art by Amrita Sher-Gil
2. Notes towards a Biography of Amrita Sher-Gil by Charles Fabri
3. Amrita Sher-Gil: An Artistic Evaluation by Karl Khandalavala
4. Amrita Sher-Gil: A Genuine Artist—Striving for Excellence by Esther Rahim
5. Amrita Sher-Gil and the East-West Dilemma by K.G. Subramanyan
6. The Doomed Romantic by Nissim Ezekiel
7. Transformation of the Pre-modern to the Modern in Early Twentieth-century Indian Art by Yashodhara Dalmia
8. Amrita Sher-Gil: The Indian Painter and Her French and Hungarian Connections by Katalin Keserü
9. A Painter of Concern: Critical Writings on Amrita Sher-Gil by G.H.R. Tillotson
10. Amrita Sher-Gil: Painter Par Excellence—The Unfolding of Art by N. Iqbal Singh
 
MYTHIC ENCOUNTERS
 
11. Charles Fabri: An Iconoclastic Vision by Yashodhara Dalmia
12. Indian Flamingo: A Novel of Modern India by Charles Fabri
 
Acknowledgements 
Bibliography 
Index 
About the Editor and Contributors

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