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245	0	0	_aBarefoot across the nation : _bMaqbool Fida Husain and the idea of India / _ceditor, Sumathi Ramaswamy.
250			_a1st Paperback
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2018.
300			_axxii, 283 pages _c14 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_bRs. 5617.00
490	0		_aVisual and media histories
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: barefoot across India: an artist and his country / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Modernist myths and the exile of Maqbool Fida Husain / Geeta Kapur -- Art on trial: civilisation and religion in the persona and painting of M.F. Husain / David Gilmartin & Barbara D. Metcalf -- Mapping India after Husain / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Secret histories of Indian modernism: M.F. Husain as Indian Muslim artist / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Of M.F. Husain and an impossible love / Veena Das -- "I am an Indian and a painter, that is all": intention and the secular subject in contemporary India / Karin Zitzewitz -- Defending Husain in the public sphere: the Sahmat experience / Ram Rahman -- Fault-lines in a national edifice: on the rights and offences of contemporary Indian art / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Taking and making offence: Husain and the politics of desecration / Kajri Jain -- The bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his muse / Patricia Uberoi -- Viewed from across the globe: the art of M.F. Husain / Susan S. Bean -- Barefoot across the nation -- A metaphysical secularist? decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim painter in exile / Bruce B. Lawrence.
520			_aThis book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably India’s most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic nation. For more than half a century, and across thousands of canvases, Husain has painted individuals and objects, events and incidents that offer an astonishing visual chronicle of India through the ages. The 13 articles in this volume – written by distinguished artists, curators, anthropologists, historians, art historians and critics, sociologists and scholars of post-colonial literature and religion – critically examine the artistic statement that Husain has presented on the self, community and nation through his oeuvre. It engages with the controversies that have erupted around and about Husain’s work, and situates them in debates around the freedom of the artist versus the sentiments of the community, between ‘virtue’ and ‘obscenity’, between an ‘elite’ of intellectuals and the ‘common man’, and between a ‘work of art’ and a ‘religious icon’. Correspondingly it considers how India has responded to Husain: with affection, admiration and adulation on the one hand, and hostility and rejection on the other. This book is more relevant than ever before in light of the debates that have arisen over Husain’s self-imposed exile for the last few years following a spate of violent attacks on his home and exhibitions in India, and his recent decision to forfeit his Indian citizenship. It will be of interest to those studying art history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and politics, as well as to a wide spectrum of readers interested in contemporary issues of identity and nationhood.
600	1	0	_aHusain, Maqbul Fida _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aArt and society _zIndia.
700	1		_aHusain, Maqbul Fida.
700	1		_aRamaswamy, Sumathi.
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