- A comprehensive overview of S.H. Raza's life and work - Featuring
over 250 works from Raza's oeuvre - Includes previously unpublished
letters and notebooks offering glimpses of the master at work - Detailed
chrono-biography situates Raza within the transcultural dynamics of the
art world After an early stint in Bombay in the 1940s, with the
Progressive Artists' Group, S. H. Raza moved to France, where he spent
the next 60 years. This volume explores Raza's artistic trajectory from
the time of his arrival in Paris, as well as his contribution to the
development of modernism in the Indian subcontinent. Raza's strong
thrust towards non-figurative art, and subsequent influences from
European and American modernism, combined with his memories and
impressions of India, led him to a skillful negotiation between Indian
spirituality and Western abstraction. Beginning with early works
developed in India before 1947, the essays in this volume analyze Raza's
later abstraction processes and landscapes. An anthology of previously
unpublished letters offer glimpses of the master at work, and a detailed
chrono-biography situates him within the transcultural dynamics of the
1950s to the 1980s. Accompanying the S.H. Raza exhibition at the Centre
Pompidou in Paris in 2023, this monograph presents a compelling overview
of Raza's work and the highlights of his journey. Published in
association with the Raza Foundation, New Delhi and Centre Pompidou,
Paris.
