Author: Publisher: Silvana Editoriale ISBN: 9788836645152 Category : Languages : en Pages : 182
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Maqbool Fida Husain (1913-2011) is a central figure in Indian modern art, and the most represented artist in Mathaf?s collection. A founding member of the Progressive Artists Group, formed in Bombay in 1947, Husain played a leading role in revolutionising art in India by parting ways with the dominant genres of academic painting and miniaturist nostalgia.0This book investigates the work produced in all six decades of Husain?s artistic practice, and includes paintings, prints, poetry, architecture, textile and film. It is streamed into three themes: first, the idea of home as a habitat, a repository of Husain?s childhood memories, and a space of exploration; second, the human passion for creativity and knowledge; and third, a multitude of approaches to the cosmic and divine aspects of being ? expressed in myths, philosophies, world religions, narratives and symbols.0The book also presents Husain?s portfolio on Islamic Civilisations, a series of 99 works commissioned by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser in 2007. 00Exhibition: Mathaf, Doha, Qatar (March - July 2019).
Author: Ila Pal Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 935264073X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 406
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M.F. Husain was many things: curious boy from Pandharpur, painter of billboards, maker of toys, aesthete, the inveterate progressive artist he soon became, and later film-maker and style icon who walked about barefoot with a long brush in hand. A legend, in short. Six years after first seeing him on a rainy day outside the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, Ila Pal met the star painter for the first time in 1961. It was the beginning of a long and enriching association between an eager student of art and M.F. Husain - a journey that lasted fifty years. This book is a product of that intimate relationship. Filled with anecdotes about his charisma, his sharp wit, his sense of wonder about the world at large and his insatiable hunger for love, this warm and personalised biography traces his evolution through his many avatars. It attempts to unravel the enigma of M.F., who is considered the master of contemporary Indian art, and the auctions of whose works at Christie's and Sotheby's changed the Indian art market forever. It also delves into the artist's exile from his homeland at the fag end of his life, exploring the question of creative licence in a climate where people's sentiments are easily hurt and where censorship rules the roost like never before. Husain: Portrait of an Artist gives us an up close and personal look at the life of a great painter who was hated and admired by millions alike - the one and only Maqbool Fida Husain.
Author: Pradeep Chandra (Photojournalist) Publisher: ISBN: 9788192091211 Category : Artists Languages : en Pages : 221
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A master painter, a colourful persona, a filmmaker with a difference, a lover of the most expensive cars on earth, a painter who preferred to walk barefoot - Maqbool Fida Husain was an enigma even to those who knew him best. M F Husain's was an inspiring story of rags-to-riches. This book pays tribute to M F Husain the artist. A master painter, a colourful persona, a filmmaker with a difference, a lover of the most expensive cars on earth, a painter who preferred to walk barefoot - Maqbool Fida Husain was an enigma even to those who knew him best. M.F. Husain's was an inspiring
Author: Bijoya Ray Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 8184757506 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 834
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It is unusual to come across a life so rich in varied experiences as the one that Bijoya Ray, wife and constant companion to the renowned film-maker Satyajit Ray, has lived. Despite being closely related, Satyajit—‘Manik’ to his friends and family—and Bijoya fell in love and embarked on a life together years before Ray’s groundbreaking film Pather Panchali was made, and their long, happy married life lasted right until Ray’s death in 1992. Bijoya Ray never felt the urge to write her memoirs, but was finally persuaded to pick up the pen when she was well into her eighties. Manik and I brims over with hitherto unknown stories of her life with Satyajit Ray, told in candid, vivid detail.
Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy Publisher: Visual and Media Histories ISBN: 9781138948136 Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably India's most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic nation. For more than half a century, and across thousands of canvases, Husain has painted individuals and objects, events and incidents that offer an astonishing visual chronicle of India through the ages. The 13 articles in this volume - written by distinguished artists, curators, anthropologists, historians, art historians and critics, sociologists and scholars of post-colonial literature and religion - critically examine the artistic statement that Husain has presented on the self, community and nation through his oeuvre. It engages with the controversies that have erupted around and about Husain's work, and situates them in debates around the freedom of the artist versus the sentiments of the community, between 'virtue' and 'obscenity', between an 'elite' of intellectuals and the 'common man', and between a 'work of art' and a 'religious icon'. Correspondingly it considers how India has responded to Husain: with affection, admiration and adulation on the one hand, and hostility and rejection on the other. This book is more relevant than ever before in light of the debates that have arisen over Husain's self-imposed exile for the last few years following a spate of violent attacks on his home and exhibitions in India, and his recent decision to forfeit his Indian citizenship. It will be of interest to those studying art history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and politics, as well as to a wide spectrum of readers interested in contemporary issues of identity and nationhood.
Author: Percy Carey Publisher: Vertigo ISBN: 9781401210472 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 128
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Recounts the life of hip-hop artist M.F. Grimm, including his early years as a performer and drug dealer, the loss of the use of his legs from a gunshot wound, his incarceration in prison, and his eventual release and self-reinvention.
Author: Mickey F. Elliott Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1467097144 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Meet Rick Jeffries: Brilliant, impulsive, stubborn. Summer of 1997 proves to be too much for eighteen year old Rick Jeffries. Packed with his quick temper and black belt in karate, Rick moves down south to be with his aunt Isabel and Uncle Russell Jeffries. With his cousins Todd and Stephanie, he learns to relax and make a fresh start. Rick begins to fall in love with the beautiful and lovely Crystal Stone. Escaping his reputation as a rebel, everything looks hopeful for a change. Police have no leads when women begin turning up dead and dismembered, worse each time. With his nephew's help, Detective Russell Jeffries is on the case. Trying to escape his past, Rick is forced into using his martial arts when a close friend becomes the next target. Who's the perpetrator and what's the motive? Now with his love in full bloom with Crystal, the two are caught up in the case detective Russell is trying to solve. With his brilliance, Rick aids his uncle in a fast paced thriller of murder, passion and most importantly -- love. Never realizing he could feel such strong emotions, his patience and skills are put to the ultimate test. Only one person can stop the psychopath from striking again..
Author: Yashodhara Dalmia Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 490
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This Pioneering Book Is An Authentic Portrayal Of The Formative Years Of Modern Indian Art, When Its Parameters Were Being Established. Looks At Painters As Diverse As M.F. Hussain, S.M. Raza, F.N. Souza, K.H. Ara, Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar Among Many Others.
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