Amrita Sher-Gil: A Personal View

✍ Scribed by Ahmad Salim

• Publisher: Ista'arah Publications
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 86
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Amrita strived to present through her works an interpretation of life itself. She wanted to reveal through her style of art the very depth of human nature. She wanted to communicate her own consciousness of beauty so that it should become universal.

Besides harmonious colouring and composition, she ever wanted to achieve sincerity -- that is, she wanted her art to reflect in outline the experiences and phases of life which she herself had undergone.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
A Significant Artist - A. R. Chughtai
Foreword - Ahmad Salim
1
2 The Story of a Face
3 Early Influences
Photos
4 France
II An Encounter with Death
5
Paintings
APPENDECIES
Appendix I
Appreciation of Art by Amrita Sher-Gil
Evolution of my Art by Amrita Sher-Gil
Trends of Art In India by Amrita Sher-Gil
"Elephants Fascinate Me"
Appendix II
Selections from Catalogue
Foreword by H. L. Prasher
Pioneer of new Technique in Painting
A Bright and Youthful Spirit by Mrs. Roop Krishna
Live and Intelligent Artist by S. L. Prasher
Artist with Distinctive Individuality by Mr. and Mrs. Roop Krishna
The Tribune, Lahore (Nov. 2, 1937)
Civil and Military Gazette (Nov. 24, 1937).
Catalogue: Amrita Sher-Gil's Paintings
The Reading Generation [A note in Sindhi]

✦ Subjects

Art, Painting, History, Biography, India, Lahore