TY - BOOK AU - Padamsee, Akbar Ed. AU - Garimella, Annapurna Ed. TI - Akbar Padamsee : work in language. Ed. by Rivka Israel SN - 8185026912 U1 - 759.954 PY - 2010/// CY - Bombay PB - Marg Pub. N1 - CONTENTS preface 6 bhanumati padamsee figure and shadow: conversations on the illusive art of akbar padamsee 12 homi bhabha re-situating akbar padamsee : a sociology of figuration 70 annapurna garimella FIGURATION abstracting figuration: akbar padamsee's body in india 98 michael w. meister 98 the inherent lightness of being: akbar padamsee's oeuvre of the '50s 118 anupa mehta a time for reflection: pose? posture? picture? painting? 148 pheroza godrej akbar padamsee's sculptures 164 nanak ganguly LANDSCAPE shades of grey 174 saryu doshi akbar padamsee's artistic landscape of the '60s 192 beth citron metascape: an artifice and its veils 218 anshuman das gupta exploring the metascape 240 baiju parthan on the play of mirrors 254 veena das ARTISTS AND CRITICS a note on akbar 268 krishen khanna koffee korner 274 arvind krishna mehrotra untitled 280 atul dodiya akbar padamsee: ascetic sensualist 286 gieve patel panoramas in grey 290 sudhir patwardhan 298 revisiting juhu geeta kapur OTHER MEDIA art in the river of life 308 meenakshi shedde ARCHIVAL EXCERPTS padamsee 324 by shamla akbar padamsee: the other side of solitude 329 by geeta kapur akbar's own writings 339 biography 344 bibliography 362 index 367 contributors 370 acknowledgements 372 ER -