Moving Focus : Essays on Indian Art

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Art and change. 2. Modern art in India and the West. 3. Modern Indian art in the last three decades. 4. The struggle for image in contemporary art. 5. The Indian artist and the socio-cultural context. 6. The uses of art criticism. 7. The 'phenomenon' of Abanindranath Tagore. 8. The paintings of Rabindranath Tagore. 9. Benode Behari Mukherjee. 10. Ramkinker Baij. 11. Amrita Sher-Gil and the East-West dilemma. 12. The image of the Indian art tradition. 13. Religion and art in India. 14. A dialogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

From the Preface: "This volume is a collection of articles and talks spread over fifteen years. They are mostly, as the title itself suggests, round the focal changes as have taken place, or are still taking place in the art situation of our time and attempt to get it into a kind of perspective in their light."