K.B. Goel (1930–2018) was a Delhi-based Indian art critic who wrote on national-level art from the 1950s to the 1990s. In this period, he closely observed and commented on emerging Indian art and its linkages with contemporary global art, which were of particular interest to him.
Active mainly as a newspaper reviewer, K.B. Goel also wrote lengthy reflective assessments that stand out for an interpretative and often theory-based approach. Writing on some of the most definitive artists, movements and styles of twentieth-century Indian art, K.B. Goel bears the rare distinction of transitioning from his modernist training to theorize on the earliest postmodern developments in Indian art, installation art
The history and trajectory of Indian modern art, a little over a century old by broad consensus, has begun to receive close scholarly attention only in the last two or so decades. And within it, it...
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Deepti Misri is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies-Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence an
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Shukla was born on 31st December 1925, in Atrauli, Lucknow. He held the position of a Provincial Civil Services officer after college. He was then promoted to the IAS. Through the course of his lit
