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020			_a9781803094328
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a759.954 _bRAN/TO
100			_aRanjit Hoskote
245			_aTO BREAK AND TO BRANCH _b: Six Essays on Gieve Patel (The India List)
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260			_aCalcutta _bSeagull Books _c2024
300			_g105
500			_aReflections on the evolution and philosophical depth of Gieve Patel’s art, adorned with illustrations of his paintings. To Break and to Branch is a collection of six essays on the artist Gieve Patel (1940–2023), written by poet, cultural theorist, and curator Ranjit Hoskote over nearly two decades, gathered together for the first time and accompanied by over fifty illustrations of Patel's paintings. In an introductory essay written especially for this edition, Hoskote looks back over the long friendship he shared with Patel, contextualizing it within the vibrant artistic milieu that was once special to Bombay, their home city: a milieu premised on a mutual curiosity that brought the arts together, hospitable to poetry, painting, theater, cinema, music, and architecture. Embodying this spirit, Hoskote engages with Patel’s evolving oeuvre as a painter and his experiments with sculpture, while connecting them to his investments in poetry, theater, and his growing philosophical awareness of the more-than-human. Hoskote’s writings trace both the constant preoccupations and the changing interests that gave Patel’s art its distinctive character and reflect on the aesthetic, philosophical, and political dimensions of Patel’s gradual movement from a human-centric understanding of the world to a more holistic view as generated and sustained by interrelationships across orders of being.
650			_aArts & recreation Painting
650			_aHistory, geographic treatment, biography
650			_aOther geographic areas
650			_aAsia
650			_aIndia and South Asia
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999			_c196537 _d196537