Résumé

"A revolutionary art movement asserted itself in India between the declaration of independence at midnight on August 15, 1947, and the economic boom of the 1990s. This is the first in-depth study of the three generations of artists responsible for critical shifts in the development of India's modernist art.Their achievements and the country's unprecedented boom ushered India's modern and contemporary art into a new era of globalism, a soaring international market, and an explosion in the media and technologies of art. After independence, India's artists faced a particular artistic challenge : how to express the new nation's distinctive character while entering a global discourse focused on modernism's universal premises of experimentation and shared human values. In the absence of a dominant aesthetic, painters could turn where they wished and blend as they liked - from Abstract Expressionism to Tantric spiritualism ; from Rajasthani painting to changes in India's complex politics, religions, classes, and vernacular life. Abundantly illustrated with iconic works of the post-Independence era, Midnight to the Boom tells the story of the exciting developments that occurred in Indian art and culture during this pivotal period in the country's modern history."[Source : revers de la jaquette]
Sommaire : An age of painting : art after independence / Susan S. Bean ; India's dialogical modernism / Homi K. Bhabha in conversation with Susan S. Bean ; Spaces for modern art : The Indian art world 1940-90 / Karin Zitzewitz ; Frame/ Works and the emergence of "Art" in India after independence / Ajay Sinha ; American collectors of Indian art chester and Davida Herwitz / Susan S. Bean ; Pathbreakers : The first generation / Rebecca M. Brown ; Midnight's children : The second generation / Susan S. Bean ; New mediators : The third generation / Beth Citron