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About the Book:
Gulammohammed Sheikh has played a pioneering role in contemporary Indian art's
engagement with hybridity and a plural inheritance. Resolutely attentive to
the multiplicity of experience and systems of representation and belief on the
subcontinent, Sheikh's art has reimagined relationships with the often paradoxical
nature of tradition. In a practice stretching more than five decades and across
painting and digital media, Sheikh has sought to articulate a way of incorporating
his fascination with historical figures and sources stretching from Italy to
China in an encyclopedic endeavor, producing contemporary art that unashamedly
declares its affiliations to earlier ways of seeing, thinking, and doing. At
Home in the World presents the first comprehensive study of the art and life
of this seminal figure, bringing together aspects of biographical discussion
alongside other modes of art historical analysis. Besides the monographic text
by Chaitanya Sambrani on Sheikh's life and work, the book contains essays on
specific aspects of his art practice by Coilin Parsons, Marcia Kupfer, and Karin
Zitzewitz.
About the Author:
Chaitanya Sambrani is an art historian and
curator specializing in modernist and contemporary art in Asia. He teaches at
the Australian National University, Canberra.
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