Horn please : narratives in contemporary Indian art
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Horn please : narratives in contemporary Indian art
Hatje Cantz , [Distributed in USA/North America by] D.A.P./Distributed Art Pub., c2007
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Narratives in contemporary Indian art
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Catalog of the exhbition held at Kunstmuseum Bern, Sept. 21, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008
Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- The multiple predicaments of the narrative / Bernard Fibicher
- Horn please / Parul Dave
- Partisan views about the human figure (1981) / Geeta Kapur
- In conversation with Gulammohammed Sheik / Suman Gopinath
- Questions and dialogue (1987) / Anita Dube
- Transit lounge : contemporary art in India (1992-2007) / Jitish Kallat
- Late arrival : an exhibition chronology of contemporary Indian art / Brigitte Ulmer
- Narratives in contemporary Indian art : a concept note / Githa Hariharan
- Narrating collisions
- Re-imagining Place for people
- Retelling stories/Telling metaphor
- Living in Alicetime
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While Western Modernism rejected narrative, and Western contemporary art is just now coming around again, India boasts a strong tradition of contemporary figurative, narrative painting. Horn Please follows the contemporary Eastern art scene from the past three decades, building out from two key points--the Radical Painters and Sculptors Association exhibitions Place for People (1982) and Question and Dialogue (1987). The former appropriated vernacular and global strategies, in work that drew as much from traditional styles as it did from the West, showcasing everyday stories; the latter rejected that line and everything commercial or Western, condensing narratives around political- and social-justice themes. Horn Please juxtaposes pieces from these seminal exhibitions with current work from the same artists, and with the work of artists too young to remember either show. Media include painting, sculpture, photography, photomontage, video, animation and installation.
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