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Monthly Art Magazine in India

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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    Public Art and Art in Public: Performative attitude makes a spectacle of Permanence Those who wanted to watch his works had to do so only in front of the willful artist, in his studio at Malleswaram, from then on. The…

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    Spectacles without a stage – an overview of Preksha Tater’s works This aspect of inclusion of the mundane appears again when she was working in the space of a fashion and design store, ‘Bombay electric’. She chooses a discarded wooden…

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    Detachment Vivek R. Singh ‘Bloom’ is a collection of paintings by artist Roohi Kapoor, showing at the Lalit Kala Akademi from the 28th of March to the 2nd April 2013. Recurring themes of fantasy and reality run throughout the show…

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    9/11- A Two Dimensio nal Picture Representation of contemporaneity and art of myth-making in folk art : Bipin Balachandran“Either you are with us, or against us”- was the catchphrase of America’s so called war against terrorism after the 9/11 incident….

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    Individual and the “Other” : Rajarshi Sengupta The never-ending argument about the role of “Individual” and “Collective” in making an object of art charts into a new direction with the intersection of craft practice with the urban forms. Some of…

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    Time for a Rethink the Perils of Print PortfoliosAs much as I love a well-crafted print, and as eager as I am to add various prints to my collection, there is something deeply disturbing about the ubiquitous portfolios churned out…

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    Contemporary Indian women artists and the re-imaging of the female bodyThe concept of body and sexuality is always being dealt in a complex and sometimes in a paradoxical manner in Indian culture. At times, it is celebrated and again it…

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    CINEMA ! A RETROSPECT OR A DWINDLING MEDIUM? AN ANALYSIS ON THE STATE OF CINEMA IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES WITH ITS RICH HISTORICAL LINEAGE! – Dinesh KhemaniCinema has asserted its presence since more than a century now. It has evolved with…

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    CINEMA CULTURE IN SOUTH INDIA – Manjunath S.We have lost the magic of various still visuals’ capacity, while positioned in sequence, behaving like moving images. The specific experience of what they communicated is unique and already historicized by now. It…

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    MEETING OF TWO ICONS- Rajarshi Sengupta This article was written as a result of visiting Lepakshi festival (September 2012) in Leakshi, Hindupur district, Andhra Pradesh. The event took place on occasion of an annual religious festival there and also to…

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    DIASPORA AND REINFORCING OF IDENTITIES IN FILMSMulticulturalism and the Diaspora have become much debated and contested terms in the politics and cultural ethos of the 21st century. Th e ‘melting pot’ that Britain and the USA have oft en been…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “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…

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    RAJA RAVI VARMA A MODERN ARTI ST OF INDIAThough his style was western but for the theme of his paintings and oleographs, he was very close to people, his art was also appreciated by common men. Raja Ravi Varma was…

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    Mythology in Post-colonial Indian arts At the outset of the festival season, this piece tries to unravel the eternal truth of the gods and goddesses, epics and jatakas. India, a 60-something nation, boasts a 5,000-year-oldcivilization, thanks to the Ramayana, Mahabharata,…

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    Evening in Varda Ram and Manohar Singh throw their heads back and guzzle streams of Haywards Super Strong 5000. It is late evening in the village of Varda, the setting sun is encircling the Aravali hills, and the peacock that…

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