NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, a new, three-part exhibition series providing a detailed look at the colorful history of modernist art in post-colonial and post-Independence India will premiere at the Rubin Museum of Art. On view from November 18, 2011 – April 9, 2012, the first installment of the series, The Body Unbound, traces the trajectory of figuration in modernist Indian art from the 1940s to the 1980s and show how the country’s shift from colonial subject to sovereign nation impacted artistic trends. The works on display, gathered from local private and institutional collections, explore the relationship between traditionally Indian, realistic depictions of the human form and the growing influence of abstraction. After the country gained independence in 1947, growing secularism and modernity emerged in the 1950s, as artistic collectives like the Progressive Artists’ Group in Bombay and the Delhi Silpi Chakra i