"The real history of modernism hasn't been written yet. It is all about Europe and New York. But that's hardly the whole of modernism. A hundred years from now, people will laugh at these narrow histories."
Amar Kanwar, who recently showed "The Lightning Testimonies," his video installation about sexual violence to Indian women, at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, said that artists in India are "challenged ideologically every step of the way."
"And yet this friction can be a source of great creativity," he added.
"This is an extremely intolerant society, an extremely racist society,"
The Indian art world has more than changed. It has exploded. Prices have increased tenfold since 2002. In the last two years alone, they have nearly doubled.
The auction price of paintings by the older generation of great Indian modernists can easily pass a million dollars, hardly uncommon for leading Western artists but staggering in a country where the average income among the 1.1 billion residents is about $820 a year
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