The essays in this volume address the fundamental question: “What is Education?†Drawing on a lifetime of experience as teacher, artist and craftsman, Devi Prasad shares and elucidates the insights of Gandhi and Tagore, as well as a global range of thinkers on education, to argue that Art Education should be the core of the education process. Art Education, broadly understood, inculcates a sense of unity and harmony with both the living and the non-living ...
Ramkinkar Vaij (1906-1980), a significant artist of twentieth-century India, is regarded as the first major figure in modern Indian sculpture. Born into a poor family in Bankura District, Bengal, he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan, at the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, at the age of 19. Having made his home and found his creative metier there--as a student first and a teacher later--he was one of the pioneering trio of artists, along ...