Review of Literature

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

1. Chakrabarti J & Kumar R S (1995) – “The Shanti Niketan Murals”, The monograph is an effort to bring murals before a wider public and to describe their background. It contains a general survey of the murals, detailed description of the major works and their historical background, and brief discussions on technique and themes. It has reproductions in black and white colour, a catalogue of works, and a bibliography. Altogether this book promises to be a useful source book on the early efforts in Shantiniketan to relate art and environment, focusing especially on the pioneering works by Nandalal Bose and BinodBehari Mukherjee. 2. Datta A & Choudhary J (1996)- “Time’s Harvest: A Cycle of Poems and Drawings Based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata”, Aim of this book is to explore The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, with their multi-textured tapestry of personalities, issues, values, relationships and tales.. Time’s Harvest is a part of a colourful tradition. Different characters from the epics come alive in all their human frailty and complexity in the pages of this book. . The artist spent a long time in the world of the poems, getting to know them well before he began to work on his part of the collaboration. The result is a suite of visuals which combine with the words to create a poetry uniquely their own. 3. VatsyayanK (1997) – “The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts”, The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts is a major contribution in Indian art history. More than a book on the theories of arts, it has far-reaching implications for the way one thinks about the future of ideology and art history. It provides a model to be emulated for inter-disciplinary research, not only between the arts but also the sciences and the arts. The book begins by re-examining the imagery of the Vedas and the Upanishads, highlighting some aspects of early speculative thought which influenced the enunciation of aesthetic theories, particularly of Bharat in the Natyashastra. 4. SubramanyamK G (2001)- “Sketches, Scribes, Drawings”, This volume of sketches, scribbles, drawings spans the work of the last 30 years, with the bulk of the material coming from the period between 1980 and the present. A composite of line, scratches, smears, swabs and dots that recreates an object, it learns its rhythm in the process and becomes an object by itself. The artist sometimes keeps it to the essentials; at other times he dresses it up and makes it play a role. Set sail a narrative. And take one to new shores of experience. This uncovers new images. So this ceaseless doodling; the unravelling of what is, then it’s reknitting into novel composites. 5. Thakurta T G (2001) – “In Her Own Right: Remembering the Artist KarunaShaha”, This book on KarunaShaha not only includes her biography but also insisted on claiming professional space in her own right. She exhibited regularly, continuing with her drawing, sketching and painting right till the end of her life. She has written widely on popular and modern art practices in India and is now completing a book on art institutions in colonial and post-colonial India. 6. Dalmia Y (2001) – “The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives”, Leading Indian artists like Husain Souza and Raza were once totally unknown and without resources. This is the story of their struggles, their achievements, and their ultimate success. This volume is an account not only of their life and works but also of modern Indian art and the course it has taken since its origins in the nineteenth century. 7. Mago P N (2001) -“Contemporary Art in India” A Perspective” The idea behind this work is to unfold the origin and development of contemporary Indian art. Covering the last 150 years and with nearly 300 illustrations, the book focuses on the different artistic and stylistic genres and art movements which have enriched. 8. Sheikh G M &Sinha G (2002) –“The Art of Gulam Mohammad Sheikh”, The central focus of this book is to explore the concepts of art work. This book contains especially the catalogue of works of Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Indian painter. It also includes a brief biographical sketch of the artist. 9. Dalmia Y (2002) –“Contemporary Indian Art: Other Realities”,This volume provides a much-needed perspective on contemporary Indian art, offering a dynamic rather than a static way of approaching the subject. Instead of a mere chronicling of modes and elucidation of styles of art which are now well known, the essays, written by scholars, deal with questions which, though often asked, remain open-ended. Within the broad conceptual framework of each essay, the works of individual artists are discussed. Much of the debate centres on the contentious subject of modernism in Indian art, in its Eurocentric, Asian, contextual, or multicultural form. 10. Sen S (2002) - “AbanindraNath Tagore: On an Indian Canvas (HB)” This book explore the work of the artist.He drew the curved thatched huts of rural Bengal and the grey, over laden sky of the monsoons. Just as his landscapes echoed the moods of this land, his portraits captured the essence of a character. Painter, set designer, illustrator and fabulist, Abanindranath Tagore led the renaissance in Indian art by dedicating his life to the revival of the traditions of ancient Indian painting. 11. Centre of International Modern Art (Calcutta, India), Lalit Kala Academy (2003)-“Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined”, This book is based on an exhibition organized by Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata, in association with Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, held in New Delhi; includes reproductions of the works exhibited. 12. Kumar R S & Subramanyam K G (2003) – “ K G Subramanyam: A Retrospective” This Retrospective on K.G. Subramanyam not only includes his more recent work but also, with over three hundred and fifty works, takes a more comprehensive and balanced overview of his composition including his paintings, terracotta reliefs, reverse paintings on glass and acrylic, linocuts, lithographs, etching, silk screens, drawings, studies, children books, toys and saras-paintings on terracotta platters-and the photographs of murals. 13. Tagore R N & Shergill A (2004) –“RabindraNath Tagore, Amrita ShergillJamini Roy: 10 September 2004”, This book contains the critical notes and reproduction of exhibited art of great painters Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gil, and Jamini Roy. 14. Tuli N (2004) –“Indian Contemporary Art: Books, Paintings & Sculpture (Volume 4)”, This book contains a catalogue for an art auction by Osian's connoisseurs of art. The choice of illustrations is wide and truly testifies the richness and diversity of the subject and a bibliography provides useful reference material.

15. TuliN (2005) -“Indian Contemporary Art: Books, Paintings & Sculpture”The fourth publication of the book offers in Osian's Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series, features 89 artists, bringing together for the connoisseur and collector an extensive and increasingly rare array of high quality works in painting and for the first time in sculpture. 16. Tagore R N & Kumar R S (2005) –“My Pictures: A Collection of Paintings” The book explores his aesthetic self, yearning to turn discord into harmony and death into renewal. And we see the emergence of rhythmic contours and characters in his work. Tagore took to painting only in his later life in the 1920s when he was already a name to reckon with in the world of literature. Although entirely untrained, he emerged as a major artist in the Indian art scene with his thought-provoking innovations. The darkness in many of his paintings is not the darkness of the night. His self-portraits reflect a deeper psychological need that of a creative person always in search of self. 17. Jhaveri A (2005) – “A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists”, This book concisely introduces 101 artists - painters, sculptors, photographers, and new media artists. The variety of ideas and forms in contemporary Indian art are presented here and illustrated with an extraordinary gathering of images. The essays are both authoritative and accessible, addressing each artist's primary concerns and methods. They also include important biographical information and vivid descriptions of selected pieces. 18. Sinha G & Khanna K (2005) - “Krishan Khanna: The Embrace of Love”, This book is in the series of contemporary Indian artists. KrishanKhanna speaks of his drawing as an intuitive process. His paintings and drawings emerge as narratives in which the artist plays out his concerns, as well as the shifting and unfolding theatre of human relationships effectively. 19. Jhaveri A (2005) – “A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists” This book concisely introduces 101 artists - painters, sculptors, photographers, and new media artists. The variety of ideas and forms in contemporary Indian art are presented here, and illustrated with an extraordinary gathering of images. The essays are both authoritative and accessible, addressing each artist's primary concerns and methods. They also include important biographical information and vivid descriptions of selected pieces. 20. Mukherjee B B(2006)-“Chitrakar: The Artist”, This book offers a comprehensive introduction and autobiographical reminiscences of a great Indian painter, BinodBehari Mukherjee. This book includes his range of wide thinking and aesthetic philosophy towards life. 21. Vadehra Art Gallery, Vadehra G (2006) -“Indian Art: Inventing (Part I of Indian Art: The moderns Revisited)”, This book is a compilation of great art work of artists. It contains Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings on Indian art from post-independence to the present day. 22. Vadehra Art Gallery,Vadehra G (2006) - “ Indian Art : Inventing ( Part II of Indian Art: The moderns Revisited)” , This book is a compilation of art work by 15 artists on a long standing engagement that has existed with the belief in the universal aspects of the 'modern', especially in art. 23. Datta R (2006) -“JogenChaudhary: His Life and Times”, This book was published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at CIMA Gallery 10 Feb.-11 Mar., 2006; includes his interview and reproductions of some paintings. 24. Vadehra Art Gallery (2006) - “Indian Art: Here and Now, Young Voices from India”, This book is a three part catalogue of an exhibition of paintings on Indian art from post- independence to the present day. 25. Subramanyam K G (2007)- “The Magic of Making on Art and Culture”, In this collection of essays, written over the last 25 years, veteran artist K. G. Subramanyam expresses his concerns with a wide range of issues--art, aesthetics, visual perception and creativity; the importance of craft practice and its nurturing; the role and future of old traditions and cultural institutions in the contemporary world; the detrimental effects of the Industrial Revolution and high-technology societies; the constant depletion of the environment; our nation's inability to cope with the education and employment of its divergent multitudes. 26. Dalmia Y & Hashmi S (2007) –“Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan”, The book explores the contemporary art of India and Pakistan. Within the larger exchange of music, cinema and other cultural forms, the contemporary art of the two countries in all its vibrancy begins to have a fascinating new identity. There are many similarities that the art of the two countries share because of their common history. 27. Gray B (2007) - “The Arts of India” This book explores the Survey of Indian painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts from the Buddhist, Islamic, and modern periods. 28. Thakurta T G (2007) -“The Making of a New Indian Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal’’ This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods. Author moves beyond most existing assumptions and narratives to explore the complexities and diversities of the changes generated by Western contacts and nationalist preoccupations in art. She examines the shifts both in the forms and practices of painting as well as in the ideas and opinions about Indian art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. 29. Ahuja M L (2007) - “ Eminent Indian: Ten Great Artists” This book offers a comprehensive introduction of the frescoes of Ajanta and Ellora, the Hindu temples, and Buddhist and Mughal architecture point to a legacy of excellence in Indian art. The combination of traditional architecture and applied sculpture appealed immensely to the flowering genius of the Indian artists. 30. Mitter P (2007) – “The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant Garde” This richly illustrated book explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. Western avant garde art inspired a powerful weapon of resistance among India’s artists in their struggle against colonial depression, and it is this complex interplay of western modernism and Indian nationalism that is the core of this book. 31. Sinha G (2008) – “Indian Art: An Overview”, The Book Indian Art: An Overview is a seminal study on Indian art's entry through modernism into post-modernism. Through fifteen essays, leading tendencies in Indian art are traced from the period of the 1850s onwards. 32. Sinha G (2008) –“Expressions and Evocations”, This book is written by some of India's best-known critics and scholars of contemporary art, including TapatiGuha-Thakurta, GeetaKapoor, YashodharaDalmia, RupikaChawla and Geeti Sen. This volume traces the significant contribution of women on the Indian art scene from the early presence of Amrita Sher-Gil in the 1930s to the artists of the 1990s.

33. Gupta T S& Roy S (2008) – “Contesting Colonialism: Partition and Swadeshi Re-visited” The present volume encompasses the multi-faceted aspects of the anti-Partition and swadeshi upsurge resulting from Curzon’s decision to partition of Bengal in 1905. The book has evolved out of a UGC-sponsored national seminar organised jointly by Victoria Memorial Museum. 34. Jahan B (2008) –“Abstraction In Indian Painting: Post Independence Era”, This book provides an analytical view of abstract art movement and its assimilation in Indian contemporary painting. It also highlights of both over each other. The author identifies the significance of abstraction in Indian painting, applied constantly throughout the Post- Independence Era. She also stresses importance of folk and other traditional art, pointing towards its continuity echoing in the contemporary art of the whole world. Major differences between artists and their influences are discusses with due seriousness and are seen as an honest and intellectual attempt to make Indian contemporary art a significant portal. 35. Sinha G (2009)- “Art and Visual Culture in India, 1857-2007” The demand for Modern, Post-Modern and Contemporary Indian art among collectors all over the world has spiralled in the past few years. This book covers major trends in Indian art over the last 150 years, taking in a broad sweep the shift from traditional forms of painting through the mechanical reproduction to 21st century Contemporary art. 36. Jain J (2009) – “Picture Showmen: Insights In to the Narrative Tradition in Indian Art”, This book reveals a comprehensive historical survey of the manifold tradition of pictorial narration In India from ancient times to the present day. It discusses -the early Buddhist narrative technique and aspects of narrative in Indian miniatures, narrative folk forms from Andhra Pradesh, Bengal, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and the Deccan. The work of Gulam Mohammed Sheikh includes insights into the lives of traditional performing families. 37. Jain J (2009) –“Kalighat Paintings: Images from a Changing World”, The book explores a lavishly illustrated study of a unique period in Indian culture and history and gives a glimpse of entirely different view of work. 38. Dalmia Y (2010)- “Indian Contemporary Art: Post Independence”, This book attempts to capture vignettes of contemporary heritage of Indian painting and profile the artists journey in independent India and essays by renowned writers. 39. Tagore R N, National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India) 2010-“ShantiNiketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism”, This book is intended for a reproduction of paintings exhibited as part of the celebration of 50th anniversary of India's independence. The exhibition features the works of Rabindra Nath Tagore, Nand Lal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ram Kinkar Baij. 40. Mukherjee B B & Kumar R S (2010) – “Binode Bihari Mukherjee (1904-1980): Centenary Retrospective”, The central focus of this book is to explore the concepts and the 180-full colour plates illustrate a wide selection of Mukherjee's work in watercolour, ink, tempera etc. in the format of large scrolls, screens from 1921 to 1957, along with a complete catalogue and timeline of his life.