The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850-1920

Abstract

List of illustrations Photographic acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary Preface Introduction 1. Artisans, artists and popular picture production in nineteenth-century Calcutta 2. The art-school artists in Calcutta: professions, practice and patronage in the late nineteenth century 3. Indigenous commercial enterprise and the popular art market in Calcutta: the emergence of a new Indian iconography 4. Tradition and nationalism in Indian art: art-histories and aesthetic discourse in Bengal in the late nineteenth century 5. Orientalism and the new claims for Indian art: the ideas of Havell, Coomaraswamy, Okakura and Nivedita 6. The contest over tradition and nationalism: differing aesthetic formulations for 'Indian' painting 7. Artists and aesthetics: Abanindranath Tagore and the 'New School of Indian Painting' Epilogue: the twenties Bibliography Index.

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