To Break and to Branch
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To Break and to Branch: Six Essays on Gieve Patel(The India List)

To Break and to Branch: Six Essays on Gieve Patel(The India List)


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Reflections on the evolution and philosophical depth of Gieve Patel’s art, adorned with illustrations of his paintings.   To Break and to Branch is a collection of six essays on the artist Gieve Patel (1940–2023), written by poet, cultural theorist, and curator Ranjit Hoskote over nearly two decades, gathered together for the first time and accompanied by over fifty illustrations of Patel's paintings. In an introductory essay written especially for this edition, Hoskote looks back over the long friendship he shared with Patel, contextualizing it within the vibrant artistic milieu that was once special to Bombay, their home city: a milieu premised on a mutual curiosity that brought the arts together, hospitable to poetry, painting, theater, cinema, music, and architecture.   Embodying this spirit, Hoskote engages with Patel’s evolving oeuvre as a painter and his experiments with sculpture, while connecting them to his investments in poetry, theater, and his growing philosophical awareness of the more-than-human. Hoskote’s writings trace both the constant preoccupations and the changing interests that gave Patel’s art its distinctive character and reflect on the aesthetic, philosophical, and political dimensions of Patel’s gradual movement from a human-centric understanding of the world to a more holistic view as generated and sustained by interrelationships across orders of being.  

Table of Contents:
Gieve and I: An Introduction 1. An Economy of Violence 2. The Incarnate Particularity of Forms 3. The Startling View from the Studio 4. To Break and To Branch 5. Sight as Covenant 6. Crossing the Bridge of Paradox List of Illustrations Acknowledgements

About the Author :
Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, art critic, cultural theorist, and curator. He is the author of multiple books including poetry collections and monographs on art and artists. His essays have appeared in many books and volumes.

Review :
A deeply felt reflection on the ecological crisis, is haunting with its urgency and hope.” “For a man whose disciplines were many—painting, poetry, plays, sculpting, medicine—Gieve Patel’s proficiency in each was enviable.” “For all its insistence on the surgical and clinical, Gieve Patel’s vision of the physical world never really excludes the possibility of a divine presence.” 


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781803094328
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: The India List
  • Sub Title: Six Essays on Gieve Patel
  • Width: 146 mm
  • ISBN-10: 180309432X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Oct 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 367 gr


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