2000: Reflections on the Arts in India

Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2000. Hardcover. VG-/VG- light general wear to book and dust jacket, light interior discoloration.. Black cloth boards with white lettering. Color-illustrated and BW-photographic dust jacket with white lettering. 180 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Contents: Introduction / Pratapaditya Pal and Kavita Singh -- Mulk Raj Anand : a visionary aesthete / Kavita Singh -- Indian archaeology : looking back, looking forward / B.B. Lal -- Museums in India : repositories or depositories of material culture? / Asok Kumar Das -- The vanishing world of tribal arts / Cornelia Mallebrein -- Indian "folk art" : tradition, revival, and transformation / Jyotindra Jain -- Indian textiles in the 20th century : crisis in transformation / Martand Singh and Rahul Jain -- What's new in Indian art : canons, commodification, artists on the edge / Geeta Kapur -- Indian architecture and the "sixth" millennium / Balkrishna Doshi -- Making Indian cities : urban design in the new millennium / Rahul Mehrotra -- From raga to fusion : Hindustani music / Sandeep Bagchee -- The state of classical dance : 2000 / Sunil Kothari -- "We need a house of our own" : the impasse of Indian theatre after Independence / Rustom Bharucha -- The enduring allure of the big screen : a century of Indian cinema / Shyam Benegal -- The power of the small screen : television as purveyor of culture / Amita Malik.