Modern Indian art reading list

Archer, W. G., Modern Indian Art, London, 1959

Bartholomew, R. L. and Kapur, S. S., Husain, New York, 1971

Bhavan, R., Pictorial Space, New Delhi, 1977

Bombay: Jehangir Gallery, Indian Painting Today, 1981

Chakrabarti, Siva Kumar & Nag, The Shantiniketan Murals, New Delhi, 1995

Chaitanya, K., A History of Indian Painting, new Delhi, 1994

Dalmia, Y., Contemporary Indian Art: Other Realities, Marg publications, Mumbai, 2002

Datta, E., Ganesh Pyne, His Life and Times, Calcutta, 1998

Guha-Thakurta, T., The Making of a New 'Indian' Art, Cambridge, 1992

Jain, Jyotindra, Other Masters, Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India, New Delhi, 1998

Kapur, G., Contemporary Indian Artists, New Delhi, 1978

Kapur, G., When was Modernism, New Delhi, 2000

London, Hayward Gallery, The Other Story, 1989-90

London, Royal Academy, Contemporary Indian Art, 1982

London, Tate Gallery, Six Indian painters, 1982

Mitter, P.,  Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922, Cambridge, 1994

Mukherjee, R., Art of Bengal, A Defined Vision 1955-1975, Cima Publications, Kolkata, 2002

Mullins, E., Souza, London, 1962

Narzany, J. J., Some New Trends in India Sculpture, Glimpses of wonder and beauty, Marg pub., 1979

Neogy, P., Benode Behar Mukherjee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1965

New Delhi: Vadhera Art Gallery, Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence, New Delhi, 1997

New Delhi: National Museum, Raja Ravi Varma, New Perspectives, New Delhi, 1993

Oxford: MoMA, India: Myth and Reality, 1982

Panikkar, S., Twentieth-century Indian sculpture, marg publications, Mumbai, 2000

Parimoo, R., The paintings of the Three Tagores, Baroda, 1973

Sen, G., Bindu, Space and Time in Raza's Vision, New Delhi, nd

Sheikh, G.M. (ed), Contemporary Art in Baroda,  Tulika, India, 1997

Shiv Kumar, R., K.G. Subramanyan, A Retrospective, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2003

Subramanyan, K.G., Moving Focus: Essays on Indian Art, New Delhi, 1978

Tuli, N., Indian Contemporary Painting, India, 1997

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