Amrita Sher Gil

Author : Anita Vachharajani
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352774744
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amrita Sher-Gil written by Anita Vachharajani and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist? A dreamer? A rebel? Who exactly was Amrita Sher-Gil? She was a little bit of all these things, really. Amrita grew up with a great sense of mischief and adventure in two very different worlds, in a village near Budapest, Hungary, and among the cool, green hills of colonial Simla. She defied headmistresses, teachers, art critics and royalty to make her own determined way in the world of grown-ups and art.Join her on a journey through her life, a journey that takes her family through World Wars and political turmoil as they travel in pursuit of love, a home and a modern, artistic education for Amrita!

Author : Yashodhara Dalmia
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759215
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amrita Sher-Gil written by Yashodhara Dalmia and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and brilliant, Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms, scandalizing the staid society of her times with her love affairs and unconventional ways. In this fascinating biography, art historian Yashodhara Dalmia paints a compelling portrait of the artist who, when she died in 1941 at the age of twenty-eight, left behind a body of work that establishes her as one of the foremost artists of the century and an eloquent symbol of the fusion between the East and the West

Author : Deepak Ananth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amrita Sher-Gil written by Deepak Ananth and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sonal Khullar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283678
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worldly Affiliations written by Sonal Khullar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of art, the Paris-trained artist Amrita Sher-Gil wrote in 1936, is to "create the forms of the future” by “draw[ing] its inspiration from the present.” Through art, new worlds can be imagined into existence as artists cultivate forms of belonging and networks of association that oppose colonialist and nationalist norms. Drawing on Edward Said’s notion of “affiliation” as a critical and cultural imperative against empire and nation-state, Worldly Affiliations traces the emergence of a national art world in twentieth-century India and emphasizes its cosmopolitan ambitions and orientations. Sonal Khullar focuses on four major Indian artists—Sher-Gil, Maqbool Fida Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, and Bhupen Khakhar—situating their careers within national and global histories of modernism and modernity. Through a close analysis of original artwork, archival materials, artists’ writing, and period criticism, Khullar provides a vivid historical account of the state and stakes of artistic practice in India from the late colonial through postcolonial periods. She discusses the shifting terms of Indian artists’ engagement with the West—an urgent yet fraught project in the wake of British colonialism—and to a lesser extent with African and Latin American cultural movements such as Négritude and Mexican muralism. Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book links artistic developments in India to newly emerging histories of modern art in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Drawing on original research in the twenty-first-century art world, Khullar shows the persistence of modernism in contemporary art from India and compares its function to Walter Benjamin’s ruin. In the work of contemporary artists from India, modernism is the ground from which to imagine futures. This richly illustrated study juxtaposes little-known, rarely seen, or previously unpublished works of modern and contemporary art with historical works, popular or mass-reproduced images, and documentary photographs. Its innovative art program renders newly visible the aesthetic and political achievements of Indian modernism.

Author : Jennifer Higgie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643138049
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror and the Palette written by Jennifer Higgie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.

Author : N. Iqbal Singh
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amrita Sher-Gil written by N. Iqbal Singh and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geeta Doctor
Publisher : books catalog
ISBN 13 : 9788171676880
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amrita Sher Gil written by Geeta Doctor and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2002 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On life and work of Indian painter, Amrita Sher Gil, 1913-1941.

Author : Umrao Singh Sher-Gil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788190391115
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Umrao Singh Sher-Gil written by Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs chiefly of the family and life of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, 1870-1954 in India, Hungary, and France which have been taken by Sher-Gil himself.

Author : Partha Mitter
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896360
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Modernism written by Partha Mitter and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial resistance. Distinguished art historian Partha Mitter now explores in this brilliantly illustrated study this lesser known facet of Indian art and history. Taking the 1922 Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta as the debut of European modernism in India, The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art. Mitter casts his gaze across a myriad of issues, including the emergence of a feminine voice in Indian art, the decline of “oriental art,” and the rise of naturalism and modernism in the 1920s. Nationalist politics also played a large role, from the struggle of artists in reconciling Indian nationalism with imperial patronage of the arts to the relationship between primitivism and modernism in Indian art. An engagingly written study anchored by 150 lush reproductions, The Triumph of Modernism will be essential reading for scholars of art, British studies, and Indian history.

Author : Christina Haupt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668488762
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amrita Sher-Gil and the representations of non-western female bodies written by Christina Haupt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: 1,0, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: The essay scrutinises the individuality of Amrita Sher-Gil paintings by examining various stylistic and personal influences as well as discuss the artist’s progress by analysing three paintings from 1930 to1935. While "Self-Portrait with Easel" (1930) is clearly influenced by Western style, "Self-Portrait as Tahitian" (1934) is already challenging the traditional representation of the female nude. The climax of Sher-Gil’s artistic transition will be discussed in "Hill Women" (1935). Moreover, the paintings are being discussed with the artist’s personal situation and the historical and cultural context in which they were created. Amrita Sher-Gil’s poems get to the heart of the conflict in the discussion of the artist’s life and work. Although being constantly anguished by her hybrid identity, Sher-Gil desired to represent a new subject matter and a pioneer in modern Indian art with unconventional representations of Non-Western female bodies. Work completed under the supervision of Dr Mary Kelly (née Healy) in fulfilment of the requirements of the Module HA3016 Intentions in Art: Women’s Art and Gender Theories, University College Cork, 2016.