1st Edition
Barefoot across the Nation M F Husain and the Idea of India
List of Illustrations Foreword Monica Juneja Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Barefoot across India: An Artist and his Country Sumathi Ramaswamy 2. Modernist Myths and the Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain Geeta Kapur 3. Art on Trial: Civilization and Religion in the Persona and Painting of M. F. Husain David Gilmartin and Barbara D. Metcalf 4. Mapping India after Husain Sumathi Ramaswamy 5. Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artist Ananya Jahanara Kabir 6. Of M. F. Husain and an Impossible Love Veena Das 7. ‘I am an Indian and a painter, that is all’: Intention and the Secular Subject in Contemporary India Karin Zitzewitz 8. Defending Husain in the Public Sphere: The SAHMAT Experience Ram Rahman 9. Fault-lines in a National Edifice: On the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art Tapati Guha-Thakurta 10. Taking and Making Offence: Husain and the Politics of Desecration Kajri Jain 11. The Bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his Muse Patricia Uberoi 12. Viewed from Across the Globe: The Art of M. F. Husain Susan S. Bean 13. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile Bruce B. Lawrence. Notes on Contributors. Index
Biography
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University.
