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    Choti Tekam: Where Lyrics are Images , the Forest her Palette Vikas Harish Choti Tekam was born in a distant Gond village in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, where the forest and the villagers were close neighbours. Fields were…

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    Lessons in Womanhood Lina Vincent Sunish Six artists share a single work each, and talk about how they use their art as women, to express themselves and also to negotiate the complexities that are patterned around gender discourse. Readers are…

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    Ashutosh Deb: Life and times Asudev wouldn’t have taken up the challenge to traverse his journey into the realms of visual art unless he had the whole hearted support of his wife, Bela who had her schooling at Kala Bhavana…

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    A STUDY OF TRIBAL ART AND CULTURE OF BASTAR, CHHATTISGARH PINKI PRIYA For so long Chhattisgarh was a ‘terra –incognito’ for the historical world. It was the second half of the 20th century when historian and researchers attempted to draw…

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    AJRAKH: SINDH TO BARMER MADAN MEENA The block-printing Khatri community of Barmer recognize themselves as Bhram-Kshatriya (Hindu clan). This has relation to a popular mythical story – when Parshuram was eliminating every Kashtriya from the earth, he reached Sindh where…

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    FRAMING THE INDIGENOUS: DISCOURSES OF FEMINIZATION OF AESTHETICS THROUGH THE ORNAMENTAL AND THE DECORATIVE IN ALPONA IN EARLY 20THC.BENGAL DR. APARNA ROY BALIGA Early twentieth century Bengal saw the redesigning of the cultural sphere during the upsurge of the Swadeshi…

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    AIPAN MOTIFS: IMPLICATION OF CULTURE, TRADITION AND RELIGION IN THE LIFE OF KUMAONIS OF UTTARAKHAND ANIRBAN DHAR “In Art, Man reveals himself and not his objects.” Every region in India has its own style and pattern of Folk art. The…

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    KOYA ADIVASI ART FORMS BHADRACHALAM, KHAMMAM DISTRICT, TELANGANA STATE ARCHANA SONTI The story of the Koyas goes back to pre-historic times. They seem to have had a highly evolved civilization in the past in which they were a ruling Tribe….

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    STORIES ON SKIN NEHA MATHRANI In the Baiga community, it is both sexes that ink their bodies with the intricate designs, called Godna. However it is for women especially that the tattoos are singular markers of identity. The women are…

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    OF THE HOUR GLASS AND THE MOVIN G IMAGES OF ETERNITY IN THE WORKS OF SANGEETA GUPTA Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga Shiva, the ultimate creator, does his Tandava to destroy all that has become irrelevant and unnecessary, and in the…

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    The Color of Wat er : Tarshito Katie Lazarowicz As a part of a world tour Tarshito was seeking a Gond artist to represent India in “The Path of the Wayfarer in Love,” an enormous scroll which will travel to…

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    Sumantra Sengupta – A Journey Away From Humanism Indira Lakshmi Prasad Having recently exhibited work in New Delhi at Art Konsult, as part of the exhibition ‘Contrabanned’ Sumantra Sengupta’s latest series of works titled ‘Hahakar’ explores the loaded issue of…

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    The History of Durga Puja in Barak Valley, Assam Shanku Sharma (Translated from Dr. amalendu Bhattacharjee’s Article in Bengali) The origin of Durga Puja in Silchar may not be known but the essence of celebrating the festival remains intact. This…

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    Durga Puja Images and Pandals of Silchar: Storyteller of Tradition, Socio-Culture and Aesthetics Dr. Meghali Goswami "Durga Puja, however, goes far beyond religious gathering of a particular religion, or community. In fact, visiting the Pandals in recent years, one can…

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    Panpatti: ‘KumarTuli’ of Silchar, Bearing Century old idol making Tradition Dr. Ganesh Nandi "More than hundreds of years back many idol makers used to come to Panpatti from various districts of present Bangladesh to work and they supplied idols to…

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    Shakti the devine power.. Satarupa Das "the Navapatrika or Kolabou is a form of Durga, which symbolizes all the aspects of nature in a complex vegetative state. Autumn or Sarad-writu was also the season for crops and the peasants worshiped…

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    The Durga Puja Pandal: Centre Stage of Festivities and Creative Energies Mallika Chakrawarti A week back, the rain-bearing clouds which hovered over Delhi gave way to resplendent sunshine. The haze brought on by monsoons seemed to have lifted, and my…

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    SADANAND BAKRE: INDIA’S ELUSIVE MODERNIST PAINTER & SCULPTOR MALLIKA CHAKRAWARTI In newspaper records, Sadanand Bakre is described as a ‘reclusive’ painter who spent his last days in his quaint, Ratnagiri home, alone and friendless. ‘Elusive’ would be more befitting an…

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    Reclaiming The Maternal And Questioning The Norms Of Representation Of Motherhood In Contemporary Indian Art By The Women Art Practitioners Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga I would like to start with the key concepts which the paper is centredon, of experiences…

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    Re-positioning The Notion Of The ‘regional Modern’ H.a. Anil Kumar (Reflections on the claim for ‘Regional Modern’ in contemporary times. This was initially presented in the Panel Discussion held as part of the ‘Madras Art Movement’ show at NGMA, Bengaluru,…

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    Of home and the world: A brief discussion on rani chanda (1912-1997) Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga From its very inception Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan enrolled female students. Girls from elite families found safe shelter in Santiniketan. Mr B W Tucker writes…

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    Of Standing Open and Polysemy The Works of Anandajit Ray Dr. Aparna Roy Baliga He unmasks, undoes the body as a mere accident, an accident that was construed easily and undone too. The trousers without the legs are perched on…

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    Curator’s Perspective A Kochi Muziris Biennale Collateral Tanya Abraham I have taken back much more than I have given to the custodial work last year. The collateral projects of the Kochi Muziris Biennale by Kashi Art Gallery helped me experiment,…

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    Popularizing Phulkari Through The Indian Fashion Industry Rajinder Kaur India is a land of multiple traditional textiles which show the creativity and expression of various regional artists. The regional and cultural diversity of every place can be easily noticed in…

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    Giotto di Bondone:The Scrovegni Chapel Padua Lina Vincent Sunish Giotto had previously worked for the Franciscan friars. The chapel was to serve as the family’s private oratory and as a funerary monument for Enrico and his wife. According to records,…

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    Journey of The Light in Art History: Mystical, Material, Spiritual, Capricious Dr. Ashrafi S. Bhagat Light and colour hence offered the aesthetics of beauty as radiance and clarity. For the medieval philosophers,metaphysically the notion of light was centered in the…

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    Sculpture is frozen music: Sushen Ghosh Sutanu Chatterjee “Sculpture is frozen music”. To comment on his works states sculptor Sushen Ghosh. Not only that through his sculptures he has embodied the music in a true sense or to say he…

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    Artistic Inheritance Dr. Seema Bhalla Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the colour of sunset in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world…

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    The Black Pottery of Nizamabad Anshu Ahuja the exquisite craft of Black pottery of Nizamabad at the Museum of Indian Terracotta in Sanskriti Kala Kendra, Delhi. Thereupon, I planned a visit to this pottery cluster in Azamgarh district of Uttarpradesh….

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    Heritage Conservation- The Church Of Santa Monica Goa: A Case Study Lina Vincent Sunish The Museum management, aware of the deteriorating condition of the 450 year old chapel due to climate conditions and neglect, worked on creating a project proposal…

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    Amina Ahmad Kar a forgotten name from international modernism in Bengal Aparna Roy Baliga When one starts research on women artists from Bengal, the name which familiarizes the work of one of the earliest woman artist, Sunayani Devi with the…

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    Dhiraj Looking Back Dhiraj Choudhury I landed at the Mexico City airport on the day of my 80th birthday, April 1st 2016. I had left for Tampa airport from Seminole in Florida early in the morning, changing my flight from…

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    Najmi Sura – Remembrance of Things Past Edward Lucie-Smith In her new series of paintings, Najmi Sura evokes the court life of the Indian subcontinent that was ruled by the Mughal emperors. ‘Ruled by’ is, of course an inexact description….

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    Riten Mazumdar : Designing New Aesthetics Ushmita Sahu In the decades following Independence, India witnessed the rise of a collective consciousness of modernist agenda in design inspired by nationalist cultural and economic policies adopted by the new government. An innovative…

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