About the Book: Modernity in Indian Art
When tradition lingers like a faded script, what does it mean to be modern?
Harsha V. Dehejia embarks on a profound exploration of modernity, weaving
together philosophy, aesthetics, and emotion. He tries to decode the shifting
soul of modern Indian art, where the artist is no longer a servant to patron or
literature but a seeker of personal truth. In this landscape of artistic
liberation, a new Rasa emerges—duhkha, the quiet despair of modernity. Born of
solitude, capitalism, and the slow fracturing of old bonds, it stains the canvas
with existential urgency and pulses with angst. Through the