Western Artists and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and DesignAbout the author Shanay Jhaveri is Associate Curator, International Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jhaveri is a graduate from Brown University and holds a Phd from the Royal College of Art, London. At the Met Jhaveri has curated the 2018 Roof Commission Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace, Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee (2019), the 2021 Facade Commission Carol Bove: The seances aren't helping and the 2021

Stakes are endless while smiles are fake

Lahore and an MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art

The volume opens with a thoughtful introduction by K

which infuse the story with a universality

Hemalatha Bhuvanendra

in one photograph

night’s threshold

records something that happens between the artist and the object

her legacy has only grown since her death

This book will be welcomed by Agamben’s many readers across the disciplines

folklore and critical social commentary

accompanied by 11 paper-cuts and watercolor drawings by the poet-artist