This volume provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. The book categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed during the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th-20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of national or oriental principle, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community. It establishes that his form of art--embedded in communitarian practices like ...
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This volume provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. The book categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed during the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th-20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of national or oriental principle, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community. It establishes that his form of art--embedded in communitarian practices like kirtan, alpona, pet-naming, syncretism, and storytelling through oral allegories--sought a social identity within the inter-subjective context of locality, regionality, nationality, and trans-nationality. The author presents Abanindranath as a creative agent who, through his art, conducted a critical engagement with post-Enlightenment modernity and regional subalternity.
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Near Fine/Like New; Hardcover; This book is brand new and still sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap; Corners are slightly "bumped" through the plastic-wrap; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 1.4 lbs; Black covers with painting illustration and title in light orange lettering; 2010, SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd; 136 pages; "The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore, " by Debashish Banerji.
