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028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/103A, H. No. 15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi _c: ZBD0200 _d: 29/07/2025
082			_a823.91 BHA
100			_aBhatt, Jyoti.
100			_a; Mehta, Pherozeshah Rustomji.
245			_aModernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar _c/ Jyoti Bhatt.
260			_a, Chennai _b: Reliable Copy _c,2022.
300			_a160p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aModernism/Murderism, translated by Vasvi Oza, brings together, for the first time in English, a forgotten debate on Modern Art that took place in the pages of the Gujarati-language periodical Kumar between 1959 and 1964. Published across various issues, the debate brings into conversation Pherozeshah Rustomji Mehta, a writer and art connoisseur from Karachi, and Jyoti Bhatt, a young artist who had just begun teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. While Mehta chose to defend what he believed were the timeless and traditional values of art, Bhatt proposed that Modern Art was no stranger to these values and in fact had much in common with them. Alongside the articles by Mehta and Bhatt, the publication also brings together responses to the debate from various readers who interjected in the 'Readers Write' column of the periodical, as well as notes from Kumar's editor, Bachubhai Ravat, who informally acted as a mediator. Offering a vantage point from which to view the entry of Modernism and its affiliated discourses into the art practices of the region, this volume proposes itself as a reader to these histories and revisits this crucial moment.
650			_aModern Art
650			_aDebate in Kumar
650			_aModernism
700			_aJyoti Bhatt
942			_cBOOK
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