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      Insurgency and The Artist: The Art of The Freedom Struggle in India

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      Insurgency and the Artist explores not merely how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle but also how the art they fashioned their own conception of the nation.

      Insurgency and the Artist explores not merely how Indian p...

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      Product ID:9789392130885
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:IN
      Title:Insurgency and The Artist
      Subtitle:The Art of The Freedom Struggle in India
      Authors:Author: Vinay Lal
      Page Count:260
      Subjects:History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Prints and printmaking, Prints & printmaking, India
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      Insurgency and the Artist explores not merely how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle but also how the art they fashioned their own conception of the nation.

      Insurgency and the Artist explores not merely how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle but also how the art they fashioned invoked their own conception of the nation, their sense of the past, and the contours of the movement for India’s emancipation from the yoke of colonial oppression. Recent scholarly work has been almost entirely riveted on nationalist prints, and much of it has focused on the idea of Bharat Mata, but this book seeks to furnish a more rounded account of the artwork — including etchings, paintings, woodblocks prints, and cartoons — contemporary to the freedom struggle and also highlights the work of neglected artists such as Babuji Shilpi, S.L. Parasher, Zainul Abedin, and M.V. Dhurandhar, among others. The author considers how the Indian past was rendered as one of martial resistance to ‘foreign’ rule, the manner in which artists worked with mythic material, and, of course, the treatment of the larger-than-life figures of Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Subhas Bose, and other patriots in nationalist art. This gloriously illustrated work simultaneously offers a narrative history of the freedom struggle and the rich interplay of text and images is designed to offer insights that neither conventional histories nor images can offer in isolation. Insurgency and the Artist is also an inquiry into how ideas travel across borders, the porousness of culture, and the relationship of art to politics.


      Imprint Name:Roli Books Pvt Ltd
      Publisher Name:Roli Books Pvt Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2023-04-19

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      Weight1200 g
      Dimensions266 × 220 × 25 mm