Indian Contemporary Art - Herve Perdriolle

Indian Contemporary Art: Contemporary, One Word, Several Worlds by Herve Perdriolle / ISBN 9788874396276 / Discounted copies but close to like new (light corner bumps) / 245-page hardcover, 9.8 x 11.5 inches, published by 5Continents *** 'The Indian tribal art, a new field of exploration of contemporary art' - Le Monde. India's cultural richness makes it an endlessly fascinating country. India is known for its profusion of sacred art reaching back several thousand years, but we are less aware of the fact that over 60 million Indians come from the several hundred miscellaneous tribes with which the country is studded. The Indian government has done more than any other to preserve and give visibility to its tribal and popular art and since 1976 the Indian authorities have regularly accorded the great names in tribal art the same status as those in the modern art that has followed independence. These are India's 'other Masters', as the title of an exhibition held in New Delhi in 1998 put