'Insurgency and the Artist' tells about how Indian printmakers and artists responded to the freedom struggle (1/8)
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It also includes how the art they fashioned invoked their conception of the nation, their sense of the past, and the contours of the movement for Indiaโs emancipation from the yoke of colonial oppression (2/8)
The book explores recent scholarly work that has been almost entirely riveted on nationalist prints, and much of it has focused on the idea of Bharat Mata (3/8)
It also seeks to furnish a more rounded account of the artworks of etchings, paintings, woodblocks prints, and cartoons which contemporary to the freedom struggle (4/8)
Vinay Lal also includes the work of neglected artists such as Babuji Shilpi, S.L. Parasher, Zainul Abedin, and M.V. Dhurandhar, among others (5/8)
This book explains how the Indian past was rendered as one of martial resistance to โforeignโ rule, how artists worked with mythic material, and the treatment of the larger-than-life figures of Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Subhas Bose, and other patriots in nationalist art (6/8)
This book explores the gloriously illustrated work of a narrative history of the freedom struggle and the rich interplay of text and images is designed to offer insights that neither conventional histories nor images can offer in isolation (7/8)
The writer offers an inquiry into how ideas travel across borders, the porousness of culture, and the relationship of art to politics (8/8)
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