Reflections of Violence and International Policy in Modern Abstract Painting of Nepal: an Unsolved Question
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Andrea de la Rubia
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Grupo de Investigación I+D TRAMA
Since the new libertarian and democratic ideologies typical of the West arrived in Nepal through India, the Nepalese society experienced a series of changes that were unavoidably reflected in a new artistic wave. The Nepalese painters adopted the Western styles -particularly realism and, from the fifties, abstraction- as innovative mediums to represent the environment of violence, in a century characterized by the revolution, subversion and general discomfort in the country
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Nepali Art, Democracy, Abstraction, Globalization, Hybrid, Censorship, Modernism
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de la Rubia, Andrea. “Reflections of Violence and International Policy in Modern Abstract Painting of Nepal: an Unsolved Question”. Indialogs, 2016, vol.VOL 3, no. Violences, pp. 57-79, http://raco.cat/index.php/Indialogs/article/view/307697.
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