Research Catalog

Title

Midnight to the boom : painting in India after independence : from the Peabody Essex Museum's Herwitz Collection / Susan S. Bean ; with Homi K. Bhabha ... [et al.].

Author

Bean, Susan S.

Publication

New York, New York : Peabody Essex Museum in association with Thames & Hudson, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bhabha, Homi K., 1949-
• Peabody Essex Museum

Description

228 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.

Summary

"A revolutionary art movement asserted itself in India between the declaration of independence at midnight on August 15, 1947, and the economic boom of the 1990s. This is the first in-depth study of the three generations of artists responsible for critical shifts in the development of India's modernist art. Their achievements and the country's unprecedented boom ushered India's modern and contemporary art into a new era of globalism, a soaring international market, and an explosion in the media and technologies of art. After independence, India's artists faced a particular artistic challenge: how to express the new nation's distinctive character while entering a global discourse focused on modernism's universal premises of experimentation and shared human values. In the absence of a dominant aesthetic, painters could turn where they wished and blend as they liked -- from Abstract Expressionism to Tantric spiritualism; from Rajasthani painting to changes in India's complex politics, religions, classes, and vernacular life. The contributors to this beautifully illustrated publication bring a deep knowledge of both India and modern and contemporary art: Susan S. Bean, Curator of South Asian and Korean Art at the Peabody Essex Museum; Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University; Rebecca M. Brown, Johns Hopkins University; Beth Citron, Rubin Museum of Art; Ajay Sinha, Mount Holyoke College; and Karin Zitzewitz, Michigan State University."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Peabody Essex Museum > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Painting, Indic > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting > India > Exhibitions
• Nationalism and art > India > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting > Salem > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Accompanies the exhibition organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., on view from Feb. 2, 2013-April 21, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-224) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An age of painting: art after independence / Susan S. Bean -- India's dialogical modernism / Homi K. Bhabha in conversation with Susan S. Bean -- Spaces for modern art: The Indian art world 1940-90 / Karin Zitzewitz -- Frame/ Works and the emergence of "Art" in India after independence / Ajay Sinha -- American collectors of Indian art chester and Davida Herwitz / Susan S. Bean -- Pathbreakers: The first generation / Rebecca M. Brown -- Midnight's children: The second generation / Susan S. Bean -- New mediators: The third generation / Beth Citron.

ISBN

• 9780500238936
• 0500238936

LCCN

^^2011946034

OCLC

• 783162674
• SCSB-10218555

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library