Research Catalog
Lightning
- Title
- Lightning / by M.F. Husain ; with contributions by Susan S. Bean [and five others].
- Author
- Husain, Maqbul Fida
- Publication
- New York, NY : TamarindArt and Kent Srikanth Charugundla in cooperation with Asia Society Museum, New York and Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad, India, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ND1010.H85 A4 2019 | Off-site | |
| Text | Use in library | ND1010.H85 A4 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bean, Susan S.
- Description
- 130 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (color); 29 cm
- Summary
- Lightning was created in 1975, during a very controversial period in India's history, to be the backdrop of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Emergency speech. Given the short time frame that M.F. Husain had to complete the work, it was titled 'Lightning', because it came about in a flash. The masterpiece was made up of twelve massive panels with ten wild, white horses charging through an open space. The significance of the painting is heightened not only by its sheer size or the brilliant rendering of its subject by the artist but also the time it was executed and the ideologies it stands for. The painting included depictions of family planning, farmers and their families, and a builder with an axe in hand. The work portrayed the political climate of the time in India post-separation. This book was conceived in honour of Husain, and various anecdotal stories and interviews on the painting form a part of this book. The selected authors invited to write on Lightning address the painting as well as its creator from various angles. It is an attempt to create a whole story around this masterpiece; every brush stroke and every inch of the canvas has a story, secretly tucked away in the midst of the powerfully rendered horses, that is left for the beholder to decipher.00Exhibition: Asia Society Museum, New York, USA (20.03.-04.08.2019).
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "Originally published privately in 2007 by TamarindArt and Kent Srikanth Charugundla"--Title page verso.
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'M.F. Husain: art and the nation' organized by Asia Society, New York, March 20, 2019-August 04, 2019"--Title page verso.
- ISBN
- 9789385360688
- 938536068X
- 9780979449505
- 0979449502
- LCCN
- 2019337416
- OCLC
- on1109211928
- SCSB-9682142
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library