• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Leela Mukherjee: A Guileless Modernist

Leela Mukherjee: A Guileless Modernist

Hardcover

General ArtSculpting

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 8196580398
ISBN13: 9788196580391
Publisher: Tulika Books
Published: Aug 20 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

Leela Mukherjee (1916-2003) was one the first women sculptors of modern India. Born in Karachi, she was educated at Banaras and Santiniketan, where she had the legendary sculptor Ramkinkar Baij as her teacher. Yet, like all women artists of her time, becoming an artist was an arduous project of self-determination. Despite being overshadowed by her husband, Benodebehari Mukherjee, and later by her daughter, Mrinalini Mukherjee, who found greater recognition, she never gave up. Her unwavering spirit and resilience are evident in her work, especially in her wood carvings, which are now finding belated recognition. This is the first study of Leela Mukherjee, and through a clutch of analytical studies and remembrances by scholars and friends, it presents her as a person and an artist of singular determination.

Published in association with the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation

Also in

General Art