Figures of Thinking presents a case for a new way of making art in a century that, even in its early years, has already brought great change and turmoil, from 9/11 to bombings and natural disasters. These events have caused a dramatic shift in how people perceive their lives and their world. 
A candid and engaging conversation between curators Vicky A. Clark and Sandhini Poddar focuses on the intuitive, on art and artists that suggest and evoke responses rather than seek to analyze, testifying to a shared sensibility that belies the complexities of today’s diverse and changing world. Featured artists include Rina Banerjee, Lesley Dill, Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Adrienne Heinrich, Nina Katchadourian, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Yuki Onodera, Kathy Prendergast, Barbara Weissberger, Heesung Yang, Cheryl Yun, and Zarina.

Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture

Arts & Photography

Poddar, Sandhini

Clark, Vicky A.

History & Criticism

Pamela Auchincloss Gallery

Filled with stunning reproductions of V. S. Gaitonde’s luminous paintings, this book on the revered Indian artist fills a valuable niche in the study of South Asian art and comparative modernities. A seminal colorist whose career remains unparalleled in the history of South Asian modern art, V.S. Gaitonde was known to fellow artists and intellectuals as well as to later generations of students and collectors as a man of uncompromising integrity of spirit and purpose. Accompanying an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this book of major paintings and works on paper serves as a means to explore the context of Indian modern art as it played out in the metropolitan centers of Mumbai and New Delhi from the late 1940s through the end of the 20th century. It also introduces readers to a reclusive genius who developed a unique nonobjective style that employed palette knives and paint rollers. The exquisite reproductions reveal Gaitonde’s extraordinary use of color, form, and texture, as well as symbolic elements and calligraphy to create works that seem to glow with an inner light. A comprehensive essay relates Gaitonde’s nuanced understanding of color to major American, European and Asian traditions and movements, analyses the artist’s use of the term “nonobjective” within its historical context, and provides valuable insights into Gaitonde’s life and work in the context of Indian modernism.

V.S. Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life

Individual Artists

Prestel

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