Modernism in Relation: KCS Paniker’s Written Pictures

$65.00 at The Getty Museum.

Available November 2026 Rebecca M. Brown  This innovative book reimagines modernism through the illegible scribbles and vibrant colors of southern Indian artist KCS Paniker. KCS Paniker (1911–1977) is a canonical figure in India’s twentieth-century modernism. He was principal of the Madras School of Art and founder of one of the world’s longest-standing artists’ communities. Yet, even within India, he remains a marginal figure, positioned at the periphery of a dominant art world centered in the north…