The Making of a New 'Indian' Art

Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850–1920

Tapati Guha-Thakurta author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Dec '07

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This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.

This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods. Tapati Guha-Thakurta moves beyond most existing assumptions and narratives to explore the complexities and diversities of the changes generated by Western contacts and nationalist preoccupations in art.This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods. Tapati Guha-Thakurta moves beyond most existing assumptions and narratives to explore the complexities and diversities of the changes generated by Western contacts and nationalist preoccupation's in art. She examines the shifts both in the forms and practices of painting as well as in the ideas and opinions about Indian art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

ISBN: 9780521052733

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 522g

384 pages