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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…
Fragmentary world offered by Photography
Notes on the historiography and comprehensively Fragmentary world offered by Photography The historicized methodology of the ‘meeting point’ between the pre-fixed frontal quality of sculpture and the overall appearance of painting is called as photography. So much for the aesthetic…
Face to Face
Vibha Galhotra is one of the leading contemporary avant-garde visual artists in India. Her oeuvre has travelled globally and hence paved the way for international market in India. In an open conversation with her, we discuss her unusual approach towards…
Photo Essay
Taste Of India Its just my eyes who actually makes me click whatever I see interesting around and specially focussing on something which i can actually make more interesting. I am trying to hold up a mirror to our society…
Media & Communication
Utterly Butterly girl now celebrating her 50th Birthday Utterly butterly delicious! This line is almost known to everyone. Yes, it is the tag line of Amul which spurred the White Revolution in India and, in turn, made India the largest…
Contributors
H.A. Anil Kumar is a Bangalore based art historian, critic and lecturer at Chitrakala Partshath. Shukla Sawant is an artist and a teacher, Dept. of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New delhi Debabrota Das is a curator and writer…
Instituting Artists’ Collectives:
The Bangalore/Bengaluru experiments with “Solidarity Economies”It often comes as a revelation to art observers, who are searching for an alternative to the commercially driven contemporary art worlds of Mumbai and Delhi, with their imposing art spaces and booming auction houses,…
International
The exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ was brought to Rome at MAXXI Museum from the 22nd Sept 2011 to the 29th Jan 2012 by the Serpentine Gallery, London . This was showcased in London in 2009, has traveled through Oslo and will…
Mahesh Chandra Column
On a certain day in early 1993 I was visiting Ram Kumar at his then residence cum studio. It was a smallish two-storied house on Mathura Road in Nizammudin East. Ram Kumar and Vimla, his wife, occupied the first floor….
