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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…
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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…
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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…
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
‘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
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
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…
“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…
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…
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…
