Lalitha Lajmi

Arundhati-Thomas, Skye

Lalitha Lajmi
  • 出版商: Sternberg Press
  • 出版日期: 2025-01-28
  • 售價: $880
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $836
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 104
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1915609348
  • ISBN-13: 9781915609342

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商品描述

The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.

Self-taught painter Lalitha Lajmi (1932-2023) was born in Kolkata, India, into a family with a keen interest in the arts, yet her artistic fervor was nonetheless limited by her circumstances. As a mother, Lajmi set up her first studio in her garage, working on her multivalent practice long into the night. Her initial investigations began with realism and later moved into expressions of Tantrism and the concept of Bindu. Critical acknowledgment of Lajmi's work would not materialize until the very end of her life. The artist died soon after her first museum survey at Mumbai's National Gallery of Modern Art.

In this first critical volume and biography of the artist, author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character. Arundhati-Thomas also reveals the critical role that psychoanalysis played in the evolution of Lajmi's art into the realm of the conceptual and, specifically, a distinctly situated form of autoethnography. Studying Lajmi's relationship with her psychoanalyst, Thomas describes how these sessions fueled a practice of self-portraiture that formed the bedrock of the artist's practice.

Published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with artPost21

商品描述(中文翻譯)

首次出版的專著，探討已故印度藝術家Lalitha Lajmi及其迷人的自畫像。

自學成才的畫家Lalitha Lajmi（1932-2023）出生於印度加爾各答，來自一個對藝術充滿熱情的家庭，但她的藝術熱情仍受到環境的限制。作為一位母親，Lajmi在她的車庫裡設立了第一個工作室，長時間在夜裡進行多元化的創作。她的初步探索始於寫實主義，後來轉向對密宗和Bindu概念的表達。對Lajmi作品的批評認可直到她生命的最後階段才開始出現。這位藝術家在孟買現代藝術國家畫廊舉辦首次博物館回顧展後不久便去世。

在這本關於藝術家的首部批評性著作和傳記中，作者Skye Arundhati Thomas深入研究Lajmi的檔案、文件、信件和素描本，以尋找有關這位藝術家性格的線索。Arundhati-Thomas還揭示了精神分析在Lajmi藝術演變為概念領域，特別是一種明確定位的自民族誌形式中所扮演的關鍵角色。通過研究Lajmi與她的精神分析師之間的關係，Thomas描述了這些會談如何促進了自畫像創作的實踐，這成為藝術家創作的基石。

本書由Sternberg Press與artPost21合作出版。

作者簡介

Skye Arundhati Thomas is an award-winning writer and editor based in Goa. They write for The London Review of Books, Artforum, frieze, and numerous other outlets. They are co-editor of The White Review. Their first book Remember the Details, on viral images, courtrooms, and a brief history of a protest movement, was published in 2021. Their second, co-written with Izabella Scott, on constitutional law, military occupation, and communications blackouts is forthcoming in 2023.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Skye Arundhati Thomas 是一位獲獎的作家和編輯，現居於果阿。他們為《倫敦書評》、《藝術論壇》、《frieze》及其他多個媒體撰寫文章。他們是《白色評論》的共同編輯。他們的第一本書《記住細節》，探討了病毒圖片、法庭以及抗議運動的簡史，於2021年出版。他們的第二本書，與 Izabella Scott 共同撰寫，將探討憲法法律、軍事佔領及通訊中斷，預計於2023年出版。

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