TRANSCENDING THE GLASS CASE : THE WOMEN ARTISTS OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY BENGAL AND THE GENDERED INDIGENOUS MODERNISM BY DR. APARNA ROY BALIGA [HARDCOVER]

Transcending the Glass Case: The women Artists of early 20th.c Bengal and the Gendered Indigenous modernism’ brings forth the discourse of the idea of gendered indigenous modernism of early 20thc.Bengal focusing on the women artists and designers of
that era. According to the author the idea is not to write them back in history but to understand the construal of women in the art practices. It is an attempt to draw the intertwining design history which is aligned to these gendered spaces of modernism. It aimed to relook and perhaps redesign the art historiography of the ‘Swadeshi art movement’ and contribute to the feminist interventions in Indian art. The book was launched by Dr. Ratnaboli
Chatterjee and Ms. Richa Agarwal, CEO, Emami Art along with the author herself.