The TIFR Art Collection Catalogue

The TIFR Art Collection CatalogueAbout the authors Mortimer Chatterjee and Tara Lal are partners in the Mumbai based gallery Chatterjee & Lal. With experience of working at both auction houses and galleries they have an extensive knowledge of the visual arts in India. Their close interaction with collectors has given them a unique insight that they have brought to bear on their analysis of Homi Bhabhas relationship with Indian art. The TIFR Art Collection is the first study of one of

Her mother would tell her Hungarian fairy tales

These surreal inversions of reality take the viewer to the interior world of the subject and

mild steel

both fictional and real

and literary criticism as well

The Parlour and the Streets analyses the development of the various forms of folk culture of the the urban poor in the new metropolis of nineteenth-century Calcutta

besides embellishing them

working with multiple photography teams and travelling for shoots

while anchoring itself in the cultural history of the wider city

broken by silences

the journal entries of ‘Evenings in Paris’ reveal Barthes as an older gay man

His films have been shown at Tate Modern