Nation, Region, Modernity

List of illustrations

Series editor's preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Deeptha Achar and Pushpamala N

Part I

Figuring the Artist: The Life and Times of K Venkatappa

2. Old Mysore: A Milieu for an Artist

Chandan Gowda

3. Venkatappa's Calcutta Interlude and His Career at Large

R Sivakumar

4. Life Writing and the Self-fashioning of the Artist

R H Kulkarni

Part II

Situating Venkatappa: International Contexts and National Concerns

4. The Creation of an Alternative Regional Avant-garde: Rabindranath Tagore, Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism

Partha Mitter

5. Sadanga's Aesthetic Division of Labour: Abanindranath Tagore and Venkatappa's Shaping of a New National Self

Parul Dave Mukherji

7. "Mysore Modern" across the Arts

Ajay Sinha

Part III

Venkatappa, Colonial Modernity and the Question of Region

8. Actor of His Own Ideal: K. Venkatappa and the Consolidation of Artistic Persona

R. Nandakumar

9. The Language of Line: K. Venkatappa and K.K. Hebbar

Suresh Jayaram

10 Kannada Romanticism: Kuvempu and Venkatappa

Mamta Sagar

Part IV

Venkatappa and the Fashioning of a Modernist Idiom

11. Speculations and Provocations around Venkatappa's Bas-Reliefs

Pushpamala N

12. The Plant Studies of K Venkatappa: The Artist's Kinship with Nature, Truth, and Rationality

Srajana Kaikini

13 The Long Exposure: Painting and Photography in Early Twentieth Century Mysore

Shukla Sawant

Part V:

K. Venkatappa: Another Genre, Another World

14 A South-Easterly Approach to the Developing Cold Front (or the Creative and Business Explorations of a True Crinsepian)

Abhishek Hazra

15. Afterword: Venkatappa's Legacy for Our Times

Janaki Nair

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• Historia da arte / estilos de arte e design
• Estudos cultirais

modernity in Indian Art;Indian art and artists