{"product_id":"modernism-in-relation","title":"Modernism in Relation","description":"KCS  Paniker (1911-1977) is a canonical figure in India's twentieth-century  modernism. He was principal of the Madras School of Art and founder of one of  the world's longest-standing artists' communities. Yet, even within India, he  remains a marginal figure, positioned at the periphery of a dominant art  world centered in the north. Paniker's best-known body of work, the  Words and Symbols series (1963-77), calls on us to  reconsider how knowledge is produced and disseminated in a postcolonial,  decolonizing world. These \"written pictures\"-paintings filled with symbols,  tables, equations, and illegible scribbles-invite decoding, only to undermine  the pursuit of wholeness or stable meaning.    Paniker  famously called Paul Klee his \"guru.\" In this book, art historian Rebecca M.     Brown explores what that might mean, moving beyond tracing influence and  derivation to embrace a fuller sense of artistic relation across geography  and time. Featuring over 100 stunning illustrations,  Modernism in Relation  explores the dynamic, twisting currents of modernism, tracing how Paniker  navigated its waters on his own terms-abandoning prescriptions for what  modern art should be or what Indian modernism should look like. The book  reveals a maker seeking new creative languages, challenging ways of knowing,  and exploring the unpredictable, ever-changing nature of relation.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57513589178741,"sku":"9798887120645","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/modernism-in-relation","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}