National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi

Jain, Jyotindra

Aggarwala, Aarti

Univ of Washington Pr

Francesco Clemente has, since the 1980s, been a leading artist in the international revival of expressionist figure painting and sculpture. Clemente's subjects--rooted in both the physical and the surreal, spiritual worlds--create a vast body of work that appeals to diverse audiences. Clemente draws upon a pan-historic web of impulses, mediating among the myriad cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Byzantium, Europe, India and America. Stylistically his work recalls the Italian Renaissance, Indian miniatures, European Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Clemente's widespread cultural interests and nomadic lifestyle--New York is his home but he spends part of each year in Italy, India and the New Mexico desert--have deeply affected his art. This lavishly produced catalogue accompanies the first major survey devoted to the painter.

Clemente

Arts & Photography

Corso, Gregory

MEHTA, GITA

Clemente, Francesco

Ricard, René

Houser, Craig

Van Sant, Gus

CREELEY, Robert

Pellizzi, Francesco

Foye, Raymond

Individual Artists

Guggenheim Museum

Art and Rituals: 2500 Years of Jainism in India (Translated from German)

Fischer, Eberhard

Orient Book Distributors

Above all else, Delhi's National Handcrafts and Handlooms Museum establishes the timeless tradition of Indian crafts. The stress here is not on antiquity but on continuity. Thus, there are metal-casting methods and pottery techniques that bear striking affinity -- indeed, that may be distinctly traced -- to those of Harappan times. And thoughout the county, weavers still sit at the simple looms that their forefathers used for centuries, producing textiles of the same surpassing beauty.Catalogue groupings are made on the basis of materials used for techniques followed, which is why a South Indian icon may be juxtaposed with a ritual mask from Himachai. These links transcend barriers of time and region, forming a network of intriguing similarities. Every effort is made in the Crafts Museum, as it was formerly called to proide the larger social context within which a particular item takes its place. Thus we are not confronted with mere objects encased in glassThe first in a series of The Museums of India, this volume catalogues a specific collection; however it also serves as a handbook of India's folk arts and crafts. Through the Museum's continuing programme of workshops and live demonstrations by visiting craftspeople, the authors have gleaned a wealth of information on their everyday lives -- hitherto uncollated and unpublished -- and on the myths and legends that inspired them.

Reference

Mapin

This is one of the first comprehensive historical surveys of the manifold tradition of pictorial nar ration in India from ancient times to the present day. Contributors discuss early Buddhist narrative sculpture, aspects of narrative in Indian miniat ure painting, as well as later narrative folk form s from Andhra Pradesh, Bengal, Gujarat, Maharashtr

Picture Showmen: Insights into the Narrative Tradition in Indian Ar

History & Criticism

Marg Foundation

The volume surveys the production and reception of popular visual culture in India from historical and contemporary perspectives (especially images from the print-cultures of the mid-19th-mid-20th centuries visual turn that emerged from the new media te

India's Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Francesco Clemente (born 1952) first visited India in 1973, and was immediately enchanted by its chaotic blend of modernity and antiquity. In the country's larger cities like New Delhi and Madras, Hindu iconography joins in the larger visual cacophony of advertisement posters and hoardings found on temple exteriors, wayside shrines, cinema houses, shops, restaurants, buses and taxis, proliferating in an irreverent bombardment of spirituality and commerce. Nine years later, Clemente would acquire a home in India, dividing his time between New York, Italy and Madras. The artist's iconography reaches deep into Indian religious art and its extraordinary presence in urban visual culture, and his art is profoundly characterized by this resource, as well as by other spiritual traditions flourishing in India, such as Theosophy. Francesco Clemente: Made in India is the artist's love letter to the country. It compiles hundreds of drawings, collages and notebooks made over the past few decades, revealing Clemente's ever-active, image-hungry eye and conveying the great wealth of the vast iconographic archive upon which his work draws. Also included is a 1992 conversation between Clemente and poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, expanding on the influence of Indian culture upon western art and literature in recent decades.

Francesco Clemente: Made in India

Kramrisch, Stella

RUSHDIE,SALMAN

Charta

•This volume offers an analysis of the work of the Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam •The author breaks down the too-simple narratives of 'tribal' and 'contemporary' and how they apply to this folk artist Before any sound critical framework could be evolved around the phenomenal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam as the originator of an extraordinary individualistic idiom of painting, ruthless market forces regrettably came to dominate his art and Jangarh himself became their first casualty. While trying to finish a large commission at a museum in Japan under adverse circumstances, Jangarh committed suicide in 2001. He was 40. A whole range of conditions, events and mediations associated with Jangarh's life and his art practice has since remained underexplored. This book is a first attempt to construct an equitable account of the formation of his prodigious artistic body of work that founded his legacy and grew into a movement. As a prime critical analysis of Jangarh Singh Shyam's oeuvre, this book also serves as a model framework for the study of a contemporary individual folk and tribal artist. The book probes the efficacy of extra-cultural interventions into an individual artist's operative and relatively well-grounded indigenous cultural tradition, and asks how the latter interacts with the new, while intentionally reinventing itself. This volume is published in association with the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bangalore.

Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror's Archive

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

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