Between Modernism and Modernisation:Locating Modernity in South Asian Art

Published in Art Journal, Fall 1999, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 49-57

When working in New Delhi in 1985, I saw an exhibition of watercolours by Laxma Goud, a prominent Indian artist, at the Lalit Kala Akademi, the national institution for contemporary visual art. Rumour had it that the late U.S collector