Indian art has gone through a boom period in parallel with the extraordinary economic rise of the subcontinent from an agrarian state to a high tech axis of the new global economy.
This work features an introduction by Zehra Jumabhoy..
Above all Indian artists are faced with the legacy of their history and the ghosts of the Raj.
The exploration of identity, a common enterprise for artists internationally, is all the more challenging in the context of India under transformation.
The new art has also been created against a background of communal tension and violence.
With bigger spaces came bigger art and the sheer scale of ambition led to a break into the international market, which is always keen to find a new spectacular presence in the art world.
With new money came a new Gallery system.
Indian art has gone through a boom period in parallel with the extraordinary economic rise of the subcontinent from an agrarian state to a high tech axis of the new global economy
