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Contemporary Art in Baroda traces the evolution of Baroda as an important centre of contemporary art and art education, from the nineteenth century up to the last decade of the twentieth century. It begins with a discussion, in the first chapter, of the historical background of culture in the erstwhile state of Baroda, leading up to the establishment of the Faculty of Fine Arts-an institution that pioneered art education at the university level. The tradition of ...
Benodebehari Mukherjee, born on 7 February 1904 in Behala, a suburb of Calcutta, was a painter and muralist of great distinction, a teacher of immense resources and influence, and an insightful thinker and writer on art. Following a childhood illness that left him with impaired vision and kept him away from a formal education, at age thirteen, he joined the school founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan. Two years later he enrolled as one of ...