Amrita Sher-Gil: Art and Life
A Reader
Edited by Yashodhara Dalmia
Author Information
Edited by Yashodhara Dalmia, Well-known Art Historian and independent curator
Yashodhara Dalmia is a well-known art historian and independent curator.
Contributors:
Yashodhara Dalmia is an art historian and an independent curator based in New Delhi. Her book Amrita Sher-Gil - A Life ( 2006) is a comprehensive account of the life of one of India's first modern artists, and received widespread international acclaim.
Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004) was a poet, dramatist, editor and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English and he is credited with influencing a whole generation of poets from A.K.Ramanujam and Dom Moraes to Adil Jussawala and Gieve Patel.
Charles Louis Fabri(1899-1968), a Hungarian Indologist and art critic, was the curator of the Lahore Museum in undivided India and was also involved with the excavations at the Indus Valley.
Karl Jamshed Khandalavala (1904-1995) was an accomplished lawyer who had joined the air force during the war and also made many contributions to the art world.
Katalin Keseru was the former director of the Ernst Museum, Budapest, is an art historian and an author of several books.
Esther (nee Esmet) Rahim (1904-1963) was a German painter who later adopted a Pakistani nationality and is known to have made works which echo Amrita Sher-Gils' and yet delve into her own experience as a woman and as a painter.
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1940) born of a Hungarian mother and an aristocratic Sikh father is considered one of the pioneers of modern Indian art.
N. Iqbal Singh worked with the All India Radio for thirty years and retired as the Station Director at Port Blair. He is best known for his biography of Amrita Sher-Gil (1984) with whom he was closely acquainted, as well as for the book The Andaman Story (1977).
K.G. Subramanyan is a painter, sculptor, muralist,printmaker, writer and academic and his multifaceted personality has influenced generations of artists at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan where he served his initial years and the Arts Faculty, University of Baroda where he taught for several years.
Giles Tillotson was Reader in History of Art at SOAS, University of London and presently Director of Research, Publications and Exhibitions at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur City Palace.
