Atreyee Gupta

A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art's role in decolonisation and aesthetic discourse across the Global South. Modernism's peak in the interwar and postwar decades coincided with the eruption of antifascist and decolonisation movements globally, including the League against Imperialism, the Bandung Asian-African Conference, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Viewing artistic practices through the lens of the radical intellectual...