Ideas Images Exchanges: Tyeb Mehta

This title presents a magnificently illustrated and detailed exploration of the entire oeuvre of one of India's most celebrated artists. It features dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted art related media & organisations. Tyeb Mehta (b.1925) is one of India's most celebrated, prolific, and critically acclaimed contemporary artists. In 2005, his painting "Mahishasura" sold for $1.5 million at an auction in Sotheby's New York - the highest-ever amount paid for a work of contemporary Indian art. "Ideas, Images, Exchanges" is a lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume that offers a detailed overview of Mehta's entire body of work, analysing it through critical writings on each phase of his work as well as through interviews, speeches, and poems. This volume also features a discussion on Mehta's work in the medium of cinema, in particular his film "Koodal" (1970), plus an exhaustive bibliography, and full chronology.