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This book offers select face to face encounters with imaginative minds of 20 century Indian visual art. Culled from the author's 25 years as a cultural journalist, these voices from painting, sculpture, design, photography and cartooning--seek to demystify the creative persona by emphasizing the human dimension. These free ranging interviews, each a vignette of its time, capture the diversity of the Indian visual context without representing any particular ...
From Bengal to Bastar and Kashmir to Coorg, there are stories that have been handed down generations: bedtime stories for children, fireside stories for travelers, who have heard these tales, wondered at them and repeated them to others. In A Twist in the Tale: More Indian Folktales, Aditi De collects forty such stories from various parts of India and retells them with dollops of humour. A friendless crocodile, a timid mouse and a vain fox are among some of the ...
This book presents fifteen new dramatic paintings by Hyderabad-based artist Vaikuntam. The artist grew up in a village called Boorugupalli in the Karimnagar district within the Telangana heartland of Andhra Pradesh. The people of his village have often been depicted in his work, especially his portrayals of women - they could be his mother, an entertainer, a neighbour, a labourer, a gaze encountered in the teeming bazaar, even a family friend from his childhood. ...