{"product_id":"lalitha-lajmi-skye-arundhati-thomas-9781915609342","title":"Lalitha Lajmi","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSelf-taught painter Lalitha Lajmi (1932-2023) was born in Kolkata, India, into a family with a keen interest in the arts, yet her artistic fervor was nonetheless limited by her circumstances. As a single mother, Lajmi set up her first studio in her garage, working on her multivalent practice long into the night. Her initial investigations began with realism and later moved into expressions of Tantrism and the concept of Bindu. Critical acknowledgment of Lajmi's work would not materialize until the very end of her life. The artist died soon after her first museum survey at Mumbai's National Gallery of Modern Art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this first critical volume and biography of the artist, author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character. Arundhati-Thomas also reveals the critical role that psychoanalysis played in the evolution of Lajmi's art into the realm of the conceptual and, specifically, a distinctly situated form of autoethnography. Studying Lajmi's relationship with her psychoanalyst, Thomas describes how these sessions fueled a practice of self-portraiture that formed the bedrock of the artist's practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished by Sternberg Press in collaboration with artPost21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Skye Arundhati-Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915609348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915609342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Skye Arundhati-Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44365108019455,"sku":"9781915609342","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_485da53a-6de1-46a8-9fd1-8db8a3b2d8eb.jpg?v=1697056657","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lalitha-lajmi-skye-arundhati-thomas-9781915609342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}