
‘The Big Book of Indian Art’ — an encyclopaedic look at more than 300 Indian artists
The HinduThe first time I heard of Bina Sarkar Ellias was in 2017, while writing an article on her daughter Yuki Ellias’ play. While it devotes 22 pages to art from 20,000 BC till 1854 — when, after the Great Exhibition in London, the School of Industrial Art was set up by the British in Kolkata to help train Indian artists to learn craft skills — the story, as it were, really starts from 1896 when art historian E.B. It’s a joy to be introduced to artists such as Theodore Matiano Mesquita, who helped found the Goan Art Forum, and Ganesh Gohain, a sculptor who has been collected internationally. The Big Book of Indian Art also acts as a corrective by including a large number of women artists, especially modernists such as Madhvi Parekh, whose work shows an intuitive connection to her surroundings, vocalist Shobha Broota, who infuses rhythm into her abstract works, and the late Gogi Saroj Pal, who brought life to her folk-style narratives. Suleman’s Fearless Collective with its 400-odd artists, uses art to protest against gender violence across the world; Chowdry creates anti-memorials to traumatic geopolitical events, such as partitions and terrorist attacks; and Merchant explores comparative mythology as well as science and speculative fiction.
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