Aesthetics of Pictorial Language epitomizes a fine piece of scholarship, both in terms of its presentation and documentation. In trying to signify the qualities embodied in the aesthetic space, the author has effortlessly ransacked the cupboards of the rich Orissan art forms – from the tribal to the modern and postmodern. The book unravels the ubiquitous, and almost indefinable, connection between the aesthetic space generated by the pictorial language. It critically examines, interrogates and investigates the interiority of such spaces in order to posit the view that these spaces engender a creativity both for the viewers, readers, critics and the artists. Author’s reading of the diverse art forms and interpretations evidence a rare critical insight with which he moulds the formal structure of this book. Basing his observations on the available theoretical paradigms, the author has evolved and formulated his own theory of reading the pictorial language.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Soubhagya Pathy
The editor is a poet, painter and art critic. He has written a Doctoral thesis Aesthetic space: The Evolution of Pictorial Language is Orissa. He has poetized two anthologies Beaujolais Nouveau and portraying Myself and other poems. He has received BEF, Zurich Scholarship to research on Orissa’s cultural traditions. He is awarded the National Fellowship in Literature by Department of Culture, Government of India. He is presently the General Secretary of the Crafts Council or Orissa.1996-98 and Junior Fellowship by Government of India to study The Role of Artisans in the Cultural Traditions of Orissa, 2003-04. He has published two poetry anthologies Beaujolais Nouveau, 1999 and Portraying Myself, 2000; edited the catalogue A Millennium Multimedia Manifestation, 1999, (with Dinanath Pathy) Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: Contemporary Art of Orissa, 2001and Beyond the Canvas: Critical Vision of an Indian Painter, 2003; curated an exhibition of crafts Council of Orissa in International Kalinga Bali Yatra, Indonesia, 1993; workshop cum exhibition Bhubaneswar Oh! Bhubaneswar, 2005 He has exhibited at Rabindra Bhavan Gallery, New Delhi, 1996, Sutra gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2004 and 05, and had his one-man exhibitions at Bhubaneswar, 2001 and University of Munich, Germany, 2004. He lives in Bhubaneswar and is a freelance writer and painter. He edits a journals on performing and visual arts Angarag.
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