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Mrinalini Mukherjee

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Mrinalini Mukherjee
Mrinalini Mukherjee
THE SHOESTRING PUBLISHER

A revelatory monograph on the work of singular figure in sculpture and fiber art

Pbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color / 50 bw. | 5/21/2019 | Not available
$60.00



Mrinalini MukherjeeMrinalini Mukherjee

Published by The Shoestring Publisher.
Edited with introduction by Shanay Jhaveri. Text by Naman Ahuja, Grant Watson, Emilia Terracciano, Deepak Ananth.

This revelatory monograph explores the work of Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015). Committed to sculpture, Mukherjee worked most intensively with fiber, making significant forays into ceramic and bronze toward the middle and latter half of her career.

Within her immediate artistic milieu in post-independent India, Mukherjee was one of the outlier artists whose art remained untethered to the dominant commitments of painting and figural storytelling. Her sculpture was sustained by a knowledge of traditional Indian and historic European sculpture, folk art, modern design, local crafts and textiles. Knotting was the principal gesture of Mukherjee's technique, evident from the very start of her practice. Working intuitively, she never resorted to a sketch, model or preparatory drawing. Probing the divide between figuration and abstraction, Mukherjee would fashion unusual, mysterious, sensual and, at times, unsettlingly grotesque forms, commanding in their presence and scale.

In retrospect, Mukherjee's artistic output appears iconoclastic, singular, calling out for assessment and analysis across multiple registers, as well as for an account of why, in hindsight, it was relegated to the margins. Within these pages are deliberations on Mukherjee's place within both an Indian and a more international art history, and her work's relationship to other fiber-art practices from the mid to late 20th century. This book will introduce Mukherjee to a new generation of scholars, art historians and artists.



PUBLISHER
The Shoestring Publisher

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.75 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color / 50 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 108   

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ISBN 9788190472098 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $85.00 GBP £53.00

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