In Central Time, Ranjit Hoskote becomes the storyteller of a turbulent epoch. We meet Ovid and Ghalib, poets in exile or eclipse, in these poems, which are by turns elliptical, conversational and narrative. We meet painters who betray their art, and sculptors who are betrayed by theirs. Fascinated by the enigmas of time, memory and evanescence that art invokes, Hoskote addresses a range of artists including Bihzad, Magritte, Masaki Fujihata and Ranbir Kaleka. At the same time, he retains his affection for the natural world, celebrating the textures and intensities of sensuous experience: the roughness of stone, the dance of light, the flowering of touch and the taste of salt and cinnamon. A testament to a present shimmering like a mirage between contested pasts and vexed futures, this book pivots around moments of encounter: a defiant squirrel in Anuradhapura, an intriguing collection of objects in a Berlin museum or a man discovering a mass grave near Kabul. Written between 2006 and 2014, the hundred poems that form Central Time resonate with the crises of war, genocide, terror, forced migration and the precariousness of belonging.

Central Time

Literature & Fiction

Hoskote, Ranjit

Poetry

India Viking

Icelight (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope Icelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth collection of poems, enacts the experience of standing at the edge?of a life, a landscape, a world assuming new contours or going up in flames. Yet, the protagonists of these poems also stand at the edge of epiphany. In the title poem, we meet the Neolithic cave-dweller who, dazzled by a shapeshifting nature, crafts the first icon. The 'I' of these poems is not a sovereign 'I'. A questing, questioning voice, it locates itself in the web of life, in relation to the cosmos. In 'Tacet', the speaker asks: "What if I had/ no skin/ Of what/ am I the barometer?" Long committed to the Japanese mono no aware aesthetic, Hoskote embraces talismans, premonitions, fossils: active residues from the previous lives of people and places. Icelight is a book about transitions and departures, eloquent in its acceptance of transience in the face of mortality. Aubade Rumours of wind, banners of cloud. The low earth shakes but the storm has not arrived. You pack for the journey, look up, look through the doors at trees shedding their leaves too soon, a track on which silk shoes would be wasted, a moon still dangling above a boat. Wearing your salt mask, you face the mulberry shadows. The valley into which you're rappelling is you.

Wesleyan University Press

Between the Ticks of the Watch

Arts & Photography

Shiff, Richard

Beasley, Kevin

Salaverria, Heidi

Øvstebø, Solveig

Reimer, Karen

History & Criticism

Renaissance Society

Reflections on the evolution and philosophical depth of Gieve Patel's art, adorned with illustrations of his paintings. To Break and to Branch is a collection of six essays on the artist Gieve Patel (1940-2023), written by poet, cultural theorist, and curator Ranjit Hoskote over nearly two decades, gathered together for the first time and accompanied by over fifty illustrations of Patel's paintings. In an introductory essay written especially for this edition, Hoskote looks back over the long friendship he shared with Patel, contextualizing it within the vibrant artistic milieu that was once special to Bombay, their home city: a milieu premised on a mutual curiosity that brought the arts together, hospitable to poetry, painting, theater, cinema, music, and architecture. Embodying this spirit, Hoskote engages with Patel's evolving oeuvre as a painter and his experiments with sculpture, while connecting them to his investments in poetry, theater, and his growing philosophical awareness of the more-than-human. Hoskote's writings trace both the constant preoccupations and the changing interests that gave Patel's art its distinctive character and reflect on the aesthetic, philosophical, and political dimensions of Patel's gradual movement from a human-centric understanding of the world to a more holistic view as generated and sustained by interrelationships across orders of being.

To Break and to Branch: Six Essays on Gieve Patel (The India List)

Seagull Books

The Atlas of Lost Beliefs

Travel

Arc Publications

Mohan Samant (1924-2004), among the earliest of the post-Independence modern Indian artists to train in India and settle as a successful mature artist in the West, has been called 'one of the few artists who has successfully made the bridge between Eastern and Western traditions.'Born in Mumbai, Samant received his diploma from the Sir JJ School of Art in 1952, where he had studied under S.B. Palsikar. That year he joined the Progressive Artists Group. Extended periods abroad - 1957-58 in Rome and travel in Europe and Egypt, 1959-64 in New York City - preceded his leaving Mumbai permanently for New York in 1968, where he lived until his death in 2004.This boxset of two volumes presents a comprehensive overview of Samant's life and work. Also included are essays on Samant's place in the development of modernism in post-Independence India, a chronological survey of the styles, techniques and themes employed by the artist, and analyses of the media and techniques he utilized.Published in association with Abraham Joel, New York, and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. With an introduction by Ranjit Hoskote and additional contributions from Abhijeet Gondkar, Virginia Kaycoff, Sharad Ghamande, Barbara Bertieri, Abraham Joel, and Judith Wink.

Mohan Samant Boxset

Wechsler, Jeffrey

Sirhandi, Marcella

Individual Artists

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

Definitive work on the artist and his style and techniques, focusing on his paintingsPioneer in the development of modernism in post-Independence IndiaMohan Samant (1924-2004), among the earliest of the post-Independence modern Indian artists to train in India and settle as a successful mature artist in the West, has been called 'one of the few artists who has successfully made the bridge between Eastern and Western traditions.'Born in Mumbai, Samant received his diploma from the Sir JJ School of Art in 1952, where he had studied under S.B. Palsikar. That year he joined the Progressive Artists Group. Extended periods abroad - 1957-58 in Rome and travel in Europe and Egypt, 1959-64 in New York City - preceded his leaving Mumbai permanently for New York in 1968, where he lived until his death in 2004.Published in association with Abraham Joel, New York, and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai. With an introduction by Ranjit Hoskote and additional contributions from Abhijeet Gondkar, Virginia Kaycoff, Sharad Ghamande, Barbara Bertieri, Abraham Joel, and Judith Wink.Previously published as part of a set, this volume, which concentrates on Samant’s paintings, is now available separately. Contents: Contents; Acknowledgements by Abraham Joel; Introduction by Ranjit Hoskote; Meeting Mohan by Judith Wink; Notes on Mohan's Art by Barbara Bertieri; Ode to a Geniu by Sharad Ghamande; The First Patrons: Laying the Groundwork for Modernism in India by Abhijeet Gondkar and Virginia Kaycoff; Plates; Mohan Samant (1924-2004) by Marcella Sirhandi; Part I: Biography; Part II: Styles, Techniques, and Themes; Mohan Samant: Individualism and Context by Jeffrey Wechsler; Media, Objects and Techniques Used by Mohan Samant: Notes on the Artist's Techniques by Barbara Bertieri and Abraham Joel; Imaging of Mohan Samant Paintings by Sharad Ghamande; Artist's Biography; Bibliography; Appendix: Time magazine article on Mohan Samant, MoMA Press Release, Letters, Reflections, Artist's Statement; List of Works; Index

Mohan Samant: Painting (Volume 1)

This volume reproduces artist Mohan Samants erotic sketches, about which he had said, There are two distinct processes in the creation of poetry, music, and painting. One is the achievement of near-perfect craftsmanship (no disregard for that) and the other is an intense, painful, internal striving that reaches outward to culminate in forms known or unknown. This condition could be erotic and at times could create a very destructive tension and confusing madness but given a motor power of a great visionary artist, it could create a Mahakali in person. In fact there is no such thing as professionalism in a great work of art. Only craftsmen become professionals.

Mohan Samant: Erotic Sketchbooks (Volume 2)

Capital & Karma

Adajania, Nancy

Mazumdar, Ranjani

Varadarajan, Siddharth

Gehrmann, Lucas

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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