Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today by Saatchi Gallery

215 in stock

288mm x 288mm x 17mm

Pages: 192

Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 192 in Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd. Indian art has gone through a boom period in parallel with the extraordinary economic rise of the subcontinent from an agrarian state to a high tech axis of the new global economy. With new money came a new gallery system. With bigger spaces came bigger art and the sheer scale of ambition led to a eak into the international market. which is always keen to find a new spectacular presence in the art world. The new art has also been created against a background of communal tension and violence. The exploration of identity. a common enterprise for artists internationally. is all the more challenging in the context of India under transformation. Above all Indian artists are faced with the legacy of their history and the ghosts of the Raj. INTRODUCTION BY ZEHRA JUMABHOY