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Acknowledgements 8
Introduction by Rajeev Lochan 14
india: vision and perspective
indigenous vocabularies
company paintings, miniatures, kalighat pat and the mysore style 26
visions of india
foreign perspectives 42
academic realism
ravi varma and others 54
the bengal idiom
search for a personal language
abanindranath tagore and followers 66
new ideals in art
the santiniketan movement 76
the intuitive eye
rabindranath tagore 86
in search of a universal essence
jamini roy 94
modernism and beyond
amrita sher-gil
a european sensibility 102
early modernists
the calcutta group and the progressive artists’ group 112
traditions revisited
motif and symbol within narrative idioms 124
narrative as device
myths, fantasies and dreams in indian art 134
representing the non-representational
indian abstractionists 146
contemporary practice
eclectic spirits
art trends post-sixties 162
the sculpted image
pleasures of material and medium 198
outside the canvas
graphics and photographs 220
Bibliography 236
Index 237
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