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Publication Date
2021-09-23
ISBN
9781916495746
Publication Year
2022
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Born in India Made In England : Autobiography of a Painter
Item Height
1in
Author
Balraj Khanna
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Unicorn Publishing Group
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, General, Prints
Item Width
6.2in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Balraj Khanna witnessed as a child in the Punjab, the cataclysmic Partition of India in 1947, when Hindus and Muslims who had lived peacefully together for generations, succumbed to blood-soaked enmity. At school and university a love of English language and culture took him to London in the bitter winter of 1962, where Goanese painter, Francis Newton Souza, warnedof the 'pitiless prejudice, indifference and scorn' he would meet. In London Balraj's career as a painter blossomed. He met the critic and novelist Mulk Raj Anand; the painter Avanash Chandra; and the distinguished Keeper of the Indian Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, W.G. Archer, who in 1968 arranged for the 28-year old Balraj to be given a solo exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Balraj joined The Indian Painters Collective and met diplomat, Salman Haidar, who promoted Indian artists and arranged exhibitions. Balraj lectured on Indian Art in universities: Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, the Royal College of Art, St Martin's, SOAS, and exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Brighton and Hove Museum and Bradford Museum. In 1971-72 he became a Foreign Correspondent during the India-Pakistan War. He met and married Francine and lived in France. Balraj's novel, Nation of Fools, was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for a First novel in 1984. Until then best known for his painting, Born in India Made in England tells his story 'warts and all': in the first part evoking the atmosphere of the India of his youth; in the second part describing with telling observation England and the English he encountered in the 1960s. As Francis Souza succinctly reflected at the time: 'Godfuck racist place full of pansies'.

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Publisher
Unicorn Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1916495745
ISBN-13
9781916495746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20057280093

Product Key Features

Book Title
Born in India Made In England : Autobiography of a Painter
Author
Balraj Khanna
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, General, Prints
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.2in

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Nd497.K453a3 2021
Reviews
'... Khanna's work has a strong intellectual base. His carefully conceived shapes both natural and man-made...also populate his work as a novelist...' Carol Jacoby, Tate Britain
Copyright Date
2021
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
759.2
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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