CONTENTS Acknowledgements v Contributors xi List of Plates xv Prof. Ratan Parimoo: A Journey in Art History 1 Shivaji K Panikkar Research Publications of Prof. Ratan Parimoo 7 From Iconography through Iconology to New Art History 15 Ratan Parimoo Introduction: Towards New Art History 47 DeepthaAchar Parul Dave Mukherji Shivaji K Panikkar PART 1 QUEST FOR NEW FRAMEWORKS 1 Visual Culture in an Indian Metropolis 69 Geeta Kapur & Ashish Rajadhyaksha 2 Contemporary Art, Issues of Praxis and Art-Collaboration : Interventions in Bastar 88 Navjot Altaf 3 Art History and Art Practice Today: A Question of Interface 99 Anshuman Das Gupta 4 Reading the Regional Through Internationalism and Nativism : The Case of Art in Madras; 1950 to 1970 105 Shivaji K Panikkar 5 Rethinking Gender Issues in Indian Art 122 Parul Dave Mukherji PART 2 PATRONAGE IN QUESTION 6 Technique, Time and Form in Ancient Indian Terracotta Sculptures 133 Baishali Ghosh 7 The Socio-Economics of Art in the Silpa Sastras 142 Vaijayanti Shete 8 Roda Temples: Edifice of Spiritualism or Political Advertisement? 153 Jayaram Poduval 9 Methodological Crisis in the Studies of Indian Painting: The Case of the Mewar School 159 Shailendra Kushwaha 10 The Poetics and Politics of Citation in Jodhpur Miniatures 165 Debra Diamond 11 Miracles in the Park: The Design and Politics of a Contemporary Religious Space in Bangalore 173 Annapurna Garimella PART 3 CITING FORMALISM AND ICONOGRAPHY 12 History as Allegory: The Bhaja Narratives 189 Deepak Kannal 13 The 'Subjectivist Turn' in Indian Temple Architecture 194 Ajay Sinha 14 Guilds as Determinants of Style: Shamalaji Sculptures 201 Abha Sheth 15 Intertextuality, Authorship and the Conundrum of Interpretation in the Sursagar Paintings of Mewar 211 Rita Sodha 16 Body and Transcendence: Representations of Two Contemporary Women Artists 221 Shubhalakshmi Shukla 17 The 'Madras Art Movement' and the Lineages of Abstraction 229 Ashrafi Bhagat 18 The Female Body Problematized: The Paintings of T.K. Padmini 243 Savithri Rajeevan PART 4 AT THE EDGE OF THE DISCIPLINE 19 The Contours of the Androgynous Body: Deciphering the Sarnath Buddha Image Type 253 Sugata Ray 20 The New Antiquity of Tamil' Temples: Constructing Identities through Architecture 265 Shriya Sridharan 21On Signature and Citizenship: Further notes on the 'Husain Affair' 276 Karin Zitzewitz 22 Subalternism in the Studies of Indian Art: An Argument Concerning Dushadh 288 Madhubani' Paintings Meena Singh 23 Identity, Discourse and Hybridity: An Analysis of MTV Imagery 294 Vellacht Ramanathan 24 Ganesa-CaturthT: Meaning and Excess in Contemporary Public Culture 305 Madhuvanti Anantharajan 25 Windowed Style of the Desktop Interface, Web Narrativity and the Indian Theories of Meaning 311 Nandini Gandhi PART 5 INSTITUTIONAL SITES OF INDIAN' ART 26 Museums and the Making of the Indian Art Historical Canon 333 Kavita Singh 27 What Makes for the 'Authentic' Female Nude in Indian Art? 358 Tapati Guha-Thakurta 28 Grafting Education: Caste, Work and the Wardha Resolution of 1937 385 Deeptha Achar 29 Re-Membering Indian Art: Plotting Journeys through Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses 394 Rahul Bhattacharya 30 National Gallery of Modern Art: Museums and the Making of National Art 400 Vitlya Shivadas 31 Constructing A Museological Paradigm of Living Cultures: The Making of the South Asia Gallery at the Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore 410 Gauri Parimoo Krishnan 32 The Photograph on a Rowdysheet 426 R Srivatsan Plates 435 Index 479