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Slide 3 Cultural Stereotypes, Nalini Malani, Partition Of India, Sense Of Touch, Popular Art, Under Pressure, Best Artist, Point Of View, Art School

Malani’s work is influenced by her experiences as a refugee of the Partition of India. She places inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes under pressure. Her point of view is unwaveringly urban and internationalist, and unsparing in its condemnation of a cynical nationalism that exploits the beliefs of the masses. Hers is an art of…

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Nalini Malani: Postmodern Cassandra | The Brooklyn Rail Nalini Malani, Aquarius Art, Classical Period, Indian Artist, Greek Myths, Postmodernism, Drawing People, Female Artists, Artist Studio

Having met the Indian artist Nalini Malani in 1985, I have been following her work for nearly 25 years with increasing admiration. When I first knew her, Malani was primarily engaged with acrylic paintings on canvas or watercolors on paper that presented an essentially realistic, socially-based picture of life in contemporary India, focusing especially on gender and family issues.

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