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Published by The Guild with National Gallery of Modern Art. “Patwardhan’s art is propelled by the counterpoint between his affirmation of visceral realism and his tendency towards numinous idealisation. In turn, these represent the constant interplay, in his art, between a materialism premised on the empirical and the palpable on the one hand, and a philosophical idealism on the other.” -Nancy Adajania, “Walking Through Soul City: A Curatorial Monograph” The Sudhir Patwardhan retrospective Walking Through Soul City was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai in the latter part of 2019 and early 2020, a major exhibition presented by The Guild with NGMA that covered the artist’s five-decade career. With Nancy Adajania’s critical curatorial monograph on the retrospective, and essays by Timothy Hyman, Prof. R. Siva Kumar and Madhav Imartey's Marathi essay on Patwardhan's work, Walking Through Soul City is a comprehensive volume on the exhibition that examines Sudhir Patwardhan’s oeuvre in great detail, from the development of his conceptual frameworks, to the themes and subjects that have interested him, to his inspirations as an artist. The work features over 400 plates of 270 Patwardhan artworks. It also features several installation images of the retrospective exhibition, preparatory sketches, and pictures of the artist.