TY - BOOK AU - Husain,Maqbul Fida AU - Ramaswamy,Sumathi TI - Barefoot across the nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the idea of India T2 - Visual and media histories SN - 9789380403113 AV - ND1010.H85 B29 2011 U1 - 759.954 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Husain, Maqbul Fida KW - Art and society KW - India N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: barefoot across India: an artist and his country / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Modernist myths and the exile of Maqbool Fida Husain / Geeta Kapur -- Art on trial: civilisation and religion in the persona and painting of M.F. Husain / David Gilmartin & Barbara D. Metcalf -- Mapping India after Husain / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Secret histories of Indian modernism: M.F. Husain as Indian Muslim artist / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Of M.F. Husain and an impossible love / Veena Das -- "I am an Indian and a painter, that is all": intention and the secular subject in contemporary India / Karin Zitzewitz -- Defending Husain in the public sphere: the Sahmat experience / Ram Rahman -- Fault-lines in a national edifice: on the rights and offences of contemporary Indian art / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Taking and making offence: Husain and the politics of desecration / Kajri Jain -- The bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his muse / Patricia Uberoi -- Viewed from across the globe: the art of M.F. Husain / Susan S. Bean -- Barefoot across the nation -- A metaphysical secularist? decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim painter in exile / Bruce B. Lawrence ER -