Barefoot across the nation
Subtitle: Maqbool Fida Husain and the idea of India
By: editor, Sumathi Ramaswamy
Series: Visual and media histories
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780415585941
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: barefoot across India: an artist and his country / Sumathi Ramaswamy; title: Modernist myths and the exile of Maqbool Fida Husain / Geeta Kapur; title: Art on trial: civilisation and religion in the persona and painting of M.F. Husain / David Gilmartin & Barbara D. Metcalf; title: Mapping India after Husain / Sumathi Ramaswamy; title: Secret histories of Indian modernism: M.F. Husain as Indian Muslim artist / Ananya Jahanara Kabir; title: Of M.F. Husain and an impossible love / Veena Das; title: "I am an Indian and a painter, that is all": intention and the secular subject in contemporary India / Karin Zitzewitz; title: Defending Husain in the public sphere: the Sahmat experience / Ram Rahman; title: Fault-lines in a national edifice: on the rights and offences of contemporary Indian art / Tapati Guha-Thakurta; title: Taking and making offence: Husain and the politics of desecration / Kajri Jain; title: The bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his muse / Patricia Uberoi; title: Viewed from across the globe: the art of M.F. Husain / Susan S. Bean; title: Barefoot across the nation; title: A metaphysical secularist? decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim painter in exile / Bruce B. Lawrence.