A History of Indian Painting - The Modern Period

Author: Krishna ChaitanyaPublisher: Abhinav PublicationsYear: 1994Language: EnglishPages: 460ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170173108 DescriptionWith 54 color and 166 halftone illustration, this work is the fifth and final volume in series of Indian painting. The fourth volume had closed with the exhaustion of the Rajput schools bringing the story up to the end of the eighteenth century. A stereotype of current art history is the assumption that the nineteenth century saw almost a total decline of the arts in India. The volume presents ample data to show that, at the level of folk culture, the visual arts continued to flourish with very little loss of vigor. It has many further paradoxes to reveal. The revival of classical art in the first decades of the twentieth century was in spite of its loud claims made by the many 'Progressive' groups in their manifestos at the time of Independence were swiftly forgotten; art became formalist and took to imitating the fashions of the west. This