Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Month: October 2012

Cover Story

Cover Story

Iconography in Contemporary Times and Contemporary Iconology Iconography is a ‘pointer’ to the relevance of culturally recognized images, contained upon their own self. A sign is an arrow mark to a direction which separates itself from that direction. In this…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Migrating Iconographies Iconography, as strictly defi ned, refers to the study of all visual symbols and/or the symbols themselves, but in popular usage iconography is nearly impossible to separate from religion and convention. Th e term itself elicits immediate associations…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Issues of Iconography and Contemporary Indian Art: A Rethink. Let us consider the Contemporary Indian Art before we explore the issues of iconography. Apparent is the expansion of art into areas beyond the perimeter of painting, sculpture and perhaps we…

Essay

ESSAY

CHANGING ICONOGRAPHY OF WOMAN POWER / SHAKTI IN INDIA It is ironic that a nation that has venerated and held in an exalted position Goddess or Shakti , is also living with the ignominy of both practicing and accepting female…

Essay

ESSAY

THREADING A FRACTURE Even in anodyne discursive deliberation—in the regime of art fi eld, to proff er a trope much favored by Alain Badiou—craft , and its trendy metonymical step-sister “reskilling” art inaugurates a hermeneutics of suspicion evidenced in the…

Amit Mukhopadhyay's Column

AMIT MUKHOPADHYAY’S COLUMN

NOTES FROM ‘LOWENIX’? No one has accused me of being so, not even the ‘unbidden chatterers’, but the point I have in mind for so long is, can religion be reconciled with reason because ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ always contradict each…

Face to Face

FACE TO FACE

‘WE HAVE BROKEN TABOOS AND MADE THE FORBIDDEN FASHIONABLE’ Celebrity Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla are at the forefront of a glittering profession, having dressed such iconic illuminators as Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Nikhil Nanda, Madhuri Dixit and Shahrukh Khan;…

International

INTERNATIONAL

DOCUMENTA 13 Documenta over the years has always been a refl ective and somewhat grim aff air. Historically the fi rst Documenta in 1955 took place to lift the sprits of Kassel, a German town suff ering from the aft…

Photo Essay

PHOTO ESSAY

HAND MADE MEMORIES – BIRENDRA PANI My present series of Conceptual Photographs are related to my experience of human life and material culture in contemporary time. Th ese were generated during my travel in diff erent spaces in India and…

History

HISTORY

THE STYLISTIC CHANGES IN THE ICONOGRAPHIES OF BUDDHA Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in the royal family of the Shakyas at Lumbini at 562/566 B.C. One day, as he was wandering around the royal park, he saw an…

Film

FILM

SALUTE TO WOMANHOOD: INDIAN CINEMA’S TRYST WITH DESTINY. Th e Indian Film industry has been a major point of reference for Indian culture in this century. It has expressed the changing scenarios of modern India to an extent that no…

Review

REVIEWS

OF DESIRE MACHINES AND HUMAN CONDITIONS ‘ Soft subversion’ and ‘Human conditions’ were two conceptual frameworks with which Birendra Pani and Rajiba Pani worked for their exhibition in Red Earth Gallery in Baroda’.Soft subversion’ speaks about the ‘new social reality…

Review

REVIEWS

ARTICULATED VIOLENCE AND THE ECONOMY OF THE UNSPOKEN Th e ascending stairs have the alphabets conjoined by the liquid in the test tube and further one has a panorama of what a ‘lived reality’ can never be the synonym of…

Editorial

Editorial

Art in every age corresponds to the beliefs, ideals and philosophical ideas it propagates. Iconography as a convention is inseparable from the religiosity and ritual it entails. It has penetrated very deeply into the psyche of people and idol worship…

Essay

“Understanding the Polemics of ‘Tribal Art’ in the Contemporary Art Scenario”

This has been a query that has haunted the art world in almost a Benjaminian sense of haunting, which is, when anyone posits the query – what is art? This has been a contentious and much debated issue since human…

Cover Story

A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE GALLERY

THE SLOWDOWN IN THE ART MARKET HAS LEFT THE COLLECTORS’ ANXIOUS AND APPREHENSIVE, AS THEY EAGERLY AWAIT THE MARKET TO GAIN MOMENTUM. TO ANALYSE THE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT HAVE INHERENTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE STAGNANCY IN ART BUYING AND APPRECIATION, WE…

Cover Story

Art Market

Art’s value is guaranteed by money, which doesn’t mean that without money it has no value, but that money value overrides art value, while appearing to confer it. Both art and criticism have been defeated by money, even though money…

Editorial

Editorial

The emergence of art as a market in the early 90s has constituted it is as yet another investment opportunity. I recollect, when I started out in the late 80s to pursue my passion for collecting art, the formation of…