Nation, Region, Modernity

The Art of K. Venkatappa. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 200 Seiten

ISBN 081536170X

EAN 9780815361701

Veröffentlicht Januar 2025

Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

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Beschreibung

This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa's (1886-1965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspired his art. It looks at the artist's style and examines the question of modernity in Indian art through the interstices of the regional and the national.

Portrait

Deeptha Achar is Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India. She has co-edited Towards New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (2003), Discourse, Democracy and Difference: Perspectives on Community, Politics and Culture (2010), and Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism (2012) apart from academic articles and catalogue essays. Her research interests include visual culture studies and childhood studies.
Pushpamala N. is an internationally recognised independent artist, writer, and curator and one of the pioneering conceptual artists in India. She is known for her strong feminist work, informed by cultural theory and social science. Her essays have been published internationally and she has presented papers at several major conferences on visual studies, cultural studies, contemporary art, and art history in India and abroad.