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Making an Inclusive Mountain Project 365 and the documentation of Tiruvannamalai Waswo X. Waswo Indeed, the not-too-distant peak is circled by a ring of clouds. There is something uncanny about it. And then, within moments, the nebulous halo vanishes like…

July 22, 2015 Art & Deal

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Sacred landscape of Ladakh in the art of Nicholas Roerich Vladimir Zaitsev Ladakh is one of the most unique places in our planet, situated on the high plateau of Western Himalayas, this barren land for centuries was known as a…

July 22, 2015 Art & Deal

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Dasavatara: Incarnation, evolution and refinement of Dharma Apurva Sinha “For the protection of the good, the destruction of the evil-doer and for the establishment of dharma, I come into being from age to age” (Bhagvada Gita 4.8) The ancient scriptures…

July 22, 2015 Art & Deal

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Reality Check how do we understand dignity of labor in India for artists Clyde D’Mello There are times we always think that we could have done something better when we were young (for example an education), but age and dignity…

July 22, 2015 Art & Deal

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Art Alive Gallery’s Tribute to nature through Raghu Rai’s immortal ‘Trees’ Santanu Ganguly In the last 18 years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India. He has produced more than 18 books, including Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta,…

June 24, 2015 Art & Deal

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The Formulation Of Iconography In The Paintings Of Raja Ravi Varma Aastha Duggal The iconography in Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings is a paradigm of tactile illusionism, bringing to life the characters of mythological and religious tales, giving them an identity…

May 28, 2015 Art & Deal

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Bireswar Sen: The Only Miniature Landscape Painter Of Indian Art Scenario Anindya Kanti Biswas Anindya Kanti Biswas traces the artistic journey of the unparalleled miniature artist Bireswar Sen. His brilliant expertise, attention to detail and ability to portray the colossal…

March 14, 2015 Art & Deal

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B.C. Sanyal and the Mayo School of Arts, Lahore: A Historical link in partitioned sub-indian ContinentAs India was struggling for its independence from the British Raj and later redefining itself post independence, Prof. B.C. Sanyal and Mayo School of Arts,…

December 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Lessons of a MasterSailoz Mookherjea was one of the foremost artists of the Modern Indian Art World. Eminent art critic Keshav Malik takes a very close look at his endearing artistic personality; a personal account of a very committed artist,…

December 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Dinkar Kowshik – A Life Truly LivedBhaiya Da, of Santiniketan, traces the journey of Dinkar Kowshik from Dharwar, in Karnataka, to Santiniketan in West Bengal – from the place of his birth to the ‘place of his rebirth.’ A sensitive…

December 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Makers of history: Jaya appaswamyMrinal Kulkarni chronicles the life of Jaya Appaswamy highlighting the journey of the pioneer artist not as the founder of Delhi Silpi Chakra group but as a connoisseur and a fine collector.Discontinuity in an artist’s creative…

December 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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rajesh Mehra If Delhi claims to be one of the important centers of contemporary Indian art, it owes it to the Delhi Silpi Chakra group members. Dr. Seema Bawa talks about one such eminent member of the Silpi Chakra group,…

December 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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The Imagined and the other: Internationalism and Post- Colonial Hybridity In Indian Contemporary Art Bipin Balachandran Bipin Balachandran elucidates the concept of postcolonial subjectivity in Indian contemporary art and exemplifies how ‘hybridity’ plays an important role. While watching the contemporary…

August 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Charak Puja: A Bengali Folk Festival Dr. Dipendu Das Charak Puja symbolises not only the co existence of human and nature but also mysticism; with the devotees feeling no pain inspite of being pierced and hung from hooks Dr.Dipendu Das…

August 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Tales of the Patuas Stuti Agarwal The narrative scrolls of the Patuas still picture the mythical stories but also depict the contemporary fiction and social issues. Stuti Agarwal explores the fate of this traditional form of story-telling. Once upon a…

June 1, 2014 Art & Deal

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Flight, Fact And Fiction: The Missing Airliner And The Role Of Stories Siddharth Sivakumar Fiction Seems to be effective at changing beliefs while feeding on the psychology of human Candition and blurring the judicious distinction between the authentic fact and…

May 7, 2014 Art & Deal

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“Brand” fART Geetika Arora Curation is an art, a process with its own flowing structure and an intended language. Geetika Arora questions the ‘curatorial’ practices followed as she argues for the correct definition of this relatively young science of art….

May 7, 2014 Art & Deal

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Jayasri Burman: Feminine Fables Uma Nair Jayasri Burman finds the perfect balance between aesthetic sensitivity and surreal romanticism.Uma Nair reviews as she reads into these contemporary narrations of myths and history . Jayasri Burman takes her first solo to Hong…

May 7, 2014 Art & Deal

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The Past As A Futuristic Representational Device H. A. Anil Kumar The past with its baggage of history, knowledge and socio-political affirmations forms the basis of future theorization. H.A.Anil Kumar asserts how the future is an accepted abstract borrowed from…

April 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Collecting Indian Graphic Novels Clyde D’ mello Clyde D’mello explores the origin, transition and continuum of the medium of ‘graphic novel’ as the writer tries to answer the way to choose and own these ’designed leaflets of art’. The idea…

April 5, 2014 Art & Deal

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Indian Art School Practices and Dissolving of ‘Construed Will’ H. A. Anil Kumar Art education in the Indian context is an unresolved issue. It is the construed will or the lack of it to address it which is more pedagogically…

February 17, 2014 Art & Deal

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RAQIB SHAW : PARADISE LOST RENUKA SAWHNEY Walking through Raqib Shaw’s exhibition, Paradise Lost at the Pace gallery in New York, is to conceptually weave through John Milton’s Paradise Lost, through the sylvan frame and into the aftermath. The 60…

January 16, 2014 Art & Deal

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WOMEN ARE NOT FROM VENUS-III YASRA DAUD KHOKER In the novel ‘Impassioned Clay’, by Welsh novelist Stevie Davies, Olivia and her father come upon the remains of a 17th-century woman while digging a grave (for Olivia’s dead mother) in the…

January 16, 2014 Art & Deal

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WOMEN ARE NOT FROM VENUS-II Yasra Daud Khoker An 1864 sketch by Honoré Daumier shows two women visiting the Paris Salon, horrified at the display of academic nudes exclaiming, “Cette année encore des Vénus …toujours des Vénus!… comme s’il y…

December 12, 2013 Art & Deal

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Women Are Not From Venus – Yasra Daud Khokerwomen angered by the blatant use of the woman’s body, arguing to see it replaced by a man’s body. The images have slowly been erased, scratched, in part preserved and integrated with…

October 3, 2013 Art & Deal

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The Ties that Bind Renuka Sawhney Consequently, these borders, alliances and exchanges form a shifting and complicated picture. As artist Naeem Mohaiemen writes, ‘In 1971, Kolkata’s deep empathy for millions of Bengali war refugees streaming across the border from East…

September 8, 2013 Art & Deal

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Remembrance of Things Past and Furious Sushma Sabnis For some, irrespective of them being directly affected, the twanging string of pain and loss resonates much deeper, not just as an emotional response to sudden calamity but a practical one that…

September 8, 2013 Art & Deal

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The Irony of Art Education and Other Politics (Art Education in Lesser Known Art Schools) H.A.Anil Kumar It was the 3G generation of students who drove those donkeys back to their owner’s place from CAVA, under the guidance of Umesh,…

July 30, 2013 Art & Deal

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How is it! Photography, today? H.A.Anil Kumar As the general belief goes, the alleged claim that negativebased photography is losing its charm and classicism could also be similar to the older generation being dissatisfied with their 3Gs (third generations). Photography,…

July 4, 2013 Art & Deal

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‘THE PHOTOS (C)HOPPED BODY’ Digital photography and the politics of desire Bipin Balachandran When everyone becomes a photographer as what is happening nowadays, the amateur/professional distinction becomes blur in photography. Any event can be recorded and circulated publically. This flood…

July 4, 2013 Art & Deal

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Miniatures: Appearances invisible to Sight H.A.Anil Kumar The innumerable flora, fauna and animals that were painted, were like the genre of still life: the commissioner thought that making an album of animals that he/she possess is one way of revealing…

June 5, 2013 Art & Deal

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Freedom of Expression : Attacked because of being Undefined! H.A.Anil Kumar In 2013, one of the exhibitions in the rented galleries of Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath had a poster that warned about ‘the viewer discretion’. The Delhi based artist had digitally…

May 7, 2013 Art & Deal

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THE NEW MYTHICAL ICONOGRAPHY OF HINDUISM: FROM CULTURAL NATIONALISM TO POLITICAL THEOLOGY Bipin Balachandran Among the various goals of the rationale of colonial modernity, the one which attains a particular preference in the context of the formation of our nation-state…

May 7, 2013 Art & Deal

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Monumental Aspirations Waswo X. Waswo “The major thing of this symposium is that all the work will be placed permanently for a lifetime in public places, where the public can always enjoy them, interact with them, and touch them. Udaipur’s…

April 11, 2013 Art & Deal