Despair and Modernity

Reflections from Modern Indian Painting

• Author(s): Harsha V. Dehejia, Prem Shankar Jha, Ranjit Hoskote,
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
• Pages: 123
• ISBN_10: 8120817559
  ISBN_13: 9788120817555
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Criticism & Theory , Art / History / General , Art / Asian / Indian & South Asian ,

Description:... Dehejia has tried to create a place within the main frame of culture and philosophy of Indian art for a legitimate analytic theory called despair. Dehejia's effort creates a space for the modern within Indian classicism by negotiating the philosophy of despair in classical terms. As a result the basic schism that has grown in recent years between the philosophy and history of modern art on the one hand and the philosophy and history of traditional arts is today cloder to being breached.