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B0D91FQTFQ pdf B0D91FQTFQ pdf The Big Book of Indian Art: An Illustrated History of Indian Art from Its Origins to the Present Day is the most comprehensive book yet published on modern Indian art. It traces the history of Indian art from its origins to the present day, and features the work of more than 300 Indian artistspainters, sculptors, illustrators, printmakers, multi-media artists, lithographers, and muralists. It is divided into eight sectionsThe Bengal School, The Bombay School, The Calcutta Group, The Progressive Painters Association in Chennai and the Cholamandal Artists Village, The Progressive Artists Group of Bombay, The Baroda Group, Artistic Footprints: Indian Icons, and The Art Landscape Post Independence. Each section deals with a landmark art movement or school of Indian art. The Bengal School, includes noted artists of the periodamong others Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, and Jamini Roy The Bombay School features the works of artists sh as Pestonji Bomanji, Mahadev V. Dhurandhar, Antonio Xavier Trindade, and M. F. Pithawalla The Calcutta Group profiles artists like Gobardhan Ash, Sunil Madhav Sen, Prodosh Das Gupta, Gopal Ghose, and Rathin Maitra The Progressive Painters Association in Chennai and the Cholamandal Artists Village includes the works of K. C. S. Paniker, J. Sultan Ali, K. V. Haridasan, M. Senathipathi, and P. Gopinath. The artists who feature in The Progressive Artists Group of Bombay include F. N. Souza, K. H. Ara, M. F. Husain, Sadanand Bakre, and S. H. Raza. Among the artists featured in The Baroda Group are N. S. Bendre, Jeram Patel, Bhupen Khakhar, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Jyotsna Bhatt. The penultimate section in the book Artistic Footprints: Indian Icons showcases artists such as B. C. Sanyal, Amrita Sher-Gil, Somnath Hore, Jehangir Sabavala, V. S. Gaitonde, K. G. Subramanyan, Ram Kumar, Krishen Khanna, Tyeb Mehta, J. Swaminathan, Himmat Shah, A. Ramachandran, Paramjit Singh, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Manu Parekh, Anjolie Ela Menon, Jatin Das, Manjit Bawa, and Thota Vaikuntam. Among the artists featured in the final section, Art Landscape Post Independence, are Indias best-known contemporary artists such as Atul Dodiya, Subodh Gupta, Arpana Caur, Jayasri Burman, Rekha Rodwittiya, Ajay Desai, and Ranbir Kaleka. With an unparalleled collection of stunning images and illuminating text about each artist, Read more