The first part of the book features the de Boers talking about their interest in India and Indian art. The second part presents a history of modern Indian painting, with essays on the Bengal school, the so- called 'Dutch Bengal' artists, the Calcutta naturalists, the portrait painters of the Bombay school in the early 20th century, the Progressive Artists Group and the post-Independence artists of Bengal. The de Boer collection also contains strong representations of a few individual artists, such as Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, Ganesh Pyne, A. Ramachandran and Rameshwar Broota, whose works are explored through essays and interviews.
The fact that many of these chapters draw almost exclusively on the de Boer collection is a testament to its incredible size and breadth. This volume hopes to show how the collection takes a dispassionate view of the global status of Indian art, while at the same time revealing a commitment and long-term engagement with the country and its creativity.
Giles Tillotson is a writer and lecturer on Indian history and architecture. He is also Fellow and a former Director of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He is currently Consultant Director at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur.
Partha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture, specialising in the reception of Indian art in the West, as well as in modernity, art and identity in India. Yashodhara Dalmia is an art historian, writer and independent curator based in New Delhi.
Sanjoy Kumar Mallik is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History of Art at Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati (Santiniketan), Sona Datta is an art historian and cultural collab- orator who until recently was Head of South Asian art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts
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