CONTENTS
Preface
Amal Allana 6
Introduction 8
Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing Art Parul Dave-Mukherji
A Space for Thought 34
Interweaving Art Practices Amal Allana
Art Heritage 1977-1982 Select exhibitions 62
Modernism and Indian Art 72
Ebrahim Alkazi in Conversation Yashodhara Dalmia
Art Heritage 1983-1988 Select exhibitions 92
This is Modern Art' 120
Experiments in Outreach, Art Writing and Exhibition Making in Bombay (1950S-196OS) Shukla Sawant
Art Heritage 1989-1995 Select exhibitions 136
Ebrahim Alkazi and Exhibition Making 152
Revisiting the Post-Independence Art Scene Devika Singh
Art Heritage 1995-2000 Select exhibitions 168
Around Exhibitions: Circles of Engagement 182
Alkazi's 'Six Artists in Black and White' Akansha Rastogi
Art Heritage Season 2001-2006 Select exhibitions 204
Conversation with K.G. Subramanyan 220
Parul Dave-Mukherji
Art Heritage 2007-2013 Select exhibitions 232
Portrait of a Nationalist: Ebrahim Alkazi 240
Partha Mitter
Art Heritage 2014-2016 Select exhibitions 264
Appendices 272
Editorials
Our Art Exhibitions (Jan. 1954) 274
Sponsoring Art (July 1954) 275
Essays on Western Modernism
Tendencies in European Art (Feb. 1954) 277
Exhibition of German Art (Mar. 1956) 278
Kathe Kollwitz (Nov. 1958) 279
The Precursors of Modern Art—Van Gogh,
Gauguin, Cezanne (Dec. 1958) 281
Through the Heart of Darkness (Jan. 1959) 282
The Ascent of the Mont St Victoire
(Feb. 1959) 283
The Cubist Revolution (June 1959) 285
The Flowering Spirit (Sept. 1959) 287
Jacob Epstein (Dec. 1959) 291
Contemporary Art (Nov. 1959) 294
Essays on Indian Modernism
The Progressive Artists Group Exhibition:
An Evasion of Responsibility (Mar. 1954) 297
The Works of Tyeb Mehta (Oct. 1959) 299
Arrows Quivering in My Neck—Words
and Lines (1960) 301
E. Alkazi Theatre Time Line
1941-1996 306
Art Heritage Time Line
1977-2015 320
Select Bibliography 359
Index 360
Image Credits 362
Acknowledgements 363
Contributors 364