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The imaginary institution of India : art 1975-1998 / [editor, Shanay Jhaveri].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--India--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Art, Modern--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Indic--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Indic.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 206 pages, 160 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Taking-off with the nation
- Place of Publication:
- Munich : Prestel, 2024.
- Summary:
- A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India's changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years. Featuring artwork by over 30 Indian artists, this major exhibition is bookended by two transformative events in India's history: Indira Gandhi's declaration of a state of emergency in 1975 and the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998. The fraught period between these years was marked by social upheaval, economic collapse, and rapid urbanisation. Within this turbulence, ordinary life continued, and artists made work that distilled historically significant episodes as well as intimate moments and shared experiences. Across a range of media, the vivid, urgent works on show - about friendship, love, desire, family, religion, violence, caste, community, protest - are deeply personal documents from a period of tremendous change. This is the first institutional exhibition to cover these definitive years, with many works never before seen in the UK.
- Contents:
- Works
- Preface
- Landscapes in motion / Shanay Jhaveri
- Body politic: contemporary art and its socio-political entanglements in India, 1970-1991 / Diva Gujral
- Images going viral, 1971-2002 / Rahaab Allana
- The city: true and tangible / Devika Singh
- Indigenist impulses and modernist assertions in Indian art: 1950-1990 / Roobina Karode
- India's Adivasi artists and 'other masters': confronting the establishment for an evolving contemporary / Tarun Nagesh
- The work of installation / Rattanamol Singh Johal
- Timeline of social and political events in India, 1975-1998 / Qamoos Bukhari
- Artists' biographies
- Film programme: Rewriting the rules: pioneering Indian cinema after 1970
- List of works
- Notes: Artist quotes.
- Notes:
- Includes work by artists: Navjot Altaf, Pablo Bartholomew, Jyoti Bhatt, Rameshwar Broota, Sheba Chhachhi, Anita Dube, Sheela Gowda, Sunil Gupta, Safdar Hashmi, M. F. Husain, Rummana Hussain, Jitish Kallat, Bhupen Khakhar, K. P. Krishnakumar, Nalini Malani, Tyeb Mehta, Meera Mukherjee, Madhvi Parekh, Gieve Patel, Sudhir Patwardhan, C. K. Rajan, N. N. Rimzon, Savindra Sawarkar, Himmat Shah, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Vivan Sundaram, and Jagdish Swaminathan.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Catalogue accompanies the exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery, 5 October 2024 - 5 January 2025.
- On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, October 5, 2024 - January 5, 2025.
- ISBN:
- 3791377698
- 9783791377698
- OCLC:
- 1426007239
- Publisher Number:
- 9783791377698
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