India, Aug. 29 -- Tyeb Mehta is the first comprehensive book devoted to the artist's practice since his death in 2009. One of the defining painters of India's first post-colonial generation, Mehta spent five decades distilling the upheavals he witnessed into a visual language of extraordinary economy. Growing out of a landmark retrospective at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, this volume explores his painting, sculpture, and his rarely seen 1970 film Koodal, through a range of essays....