Divine Color

$45.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Transcendent and kaleidoscopic, these rare lithographs from colonial Calcutta helped forge the visual culture of modern India. This publication accompanies the MFA Boston exhibition "Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal." Under the rule of the British Raj, Bengali artists embraced European techniques not to mimic the West, but to devise a uniquely local visual language that appealed to a diverse audience. Divine Color magnifies this phenomenon through mapping the explosion of popular devotional art…