Cover image: Italia, Jyoti Bhatt, collagraph, 1961.
The Waswo X. Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking represents over
seventy-nine Indian artists from diverse geographical regions.
Consisting of woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and screenprints, the
works in the collection span a time from 1916 to the present. Unlike
many surveys of contemporary printmaking, Between the Lines approaches
its subject matter with an emphasis on imagery and meaning rather than
technique. It stands as a completely fresh approach to a much neglected
subject. Art Historian and Curator Lina Vincent Sunish makes a unique
analysis of the sociological and historical context that has moulded the
growth of Indian art. Arguing that images often straddle the lines of
arbitrary categories, she approaches The Waswo X. Waswo Collection of
Indian Printmaking as a particular pathway through a complex aesthetic
and historical geography. With keen insight she elaborates on how the
concepts of Identity, Place and Power have shaped artistic creation,
while at the same time encouraging us to think between these categorical
parameters.
