MIDNIGHT TO THE BOOM 英文原版

　　Following independence in 1947, Indias artists faced a
particular challenge: how to express the new nations distinctive
character while entering a global discourse focused on modernisms
universal premises of experimentation and shared human values. In
the absence of a dominant aesthetic, painters could turn where they
wished and blend as they liked from Abstract Expressionism to
Tantric spiritualism; from Rajasthani painting to changes in Indias
complex politics, religions, castes and daily life. This richly
illustrated, in-depth study, published to accompany the exhibition
organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in the USA, surveys the three
generations of artists responsible for these critical shifts in the
development of Indias modernist art. It shows how their
achievements and the countrys unprecedented boom ushered Indias
modern and contemporary art into a new era of globalism, a soaring
international market, and an explosion in the media and
technologies of art.

　　Susan S. Bean is Curator of South Asian and Korean Art at the
Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.