Lalitha Lajmi

Skye Arundhati-Thomas

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Sternberg Press
25 March 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; Picture books

Series: Imagine Otherwise

The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.

The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.

Self-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 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.

In 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.

Published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with artPost21

By: Skye Arundhati-Thomas
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 113mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 102g
ISBN: 9781915609342
ISBN 10: 1915609348
Series: Imagine Otherwise
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 25 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Skye Arundhati Thomas is an award-winning writer and editor based in Goa. They write for The London Review of Books, Artforum, frieze, and numerous other outlets. They are co-editor of The White Review. Their first book Remember the Details, on viral images, courtrooms, and a brief history of a protest movement, was published in 2021. Their second, co-written with Izabella Scott, on constitutional law, military occupation, and communications blackouts is forthcoming in 2023.

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