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Between the Spider and the Lamp
1956
Six women become an enigmatic frieze. Narrative is suggested, then withheld.
Artist field note
M.F. Husain
A modern India in fast-moving lines.
Appears inIndia
The five in one idea
Husain made modernism feel indigenous not by rejecting tradition, but by treating mythology, cinema, politics and street life as equally available material.