Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Essays: Kalighat Paintings in the V&A Collection
2. Kalighat Paintings at Victoria Memorial Hall
3. Kalam Patua: From the Interstices of the City
4. Materials and Techniques of Kalighat Paintings
5. Catalogue: Religious Subjects
6. Social Commentaries, Proverbs and Animals
7. British and European Influence
8. The Tarakeshwar Affair
9. Named Artists and the End of the Century
10. Kalighat Themes in Different Media
11. Contemporary Kalighat Painting
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Publication
Kalighat painting evolved as a unique painting style in the rapidly urbanizing cityscape of 19th-century Kolkata. Reflecting a new language, these paintings recorded the changes in lifestyles, values, and a new visual vocabulary b... Read More
About the Author
Suhashini Sinha is Assistant Curator at the V&A, London. Prof. C Panda is Secretary and Curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. With contributions from Piyasi Bharasa, Dr Lucio Burgio, Jyotindra Jain and Mike Wheeler.
