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These are charming stories of a childhood in lahore, bustling with drunken shoemakers, friendly fruitsellers, bachelor uncles, Tayaji defeated by a rat and Chachaji hunting for a bride. But what, one wonders, is one of India's most reputed artists doing writing stories that read like Paiji's tales from a charpoy? Not a hint that the boy growing up at 2, Maclagan Road would abandon his comfortable bank job for Art, unless you consider a perfunctory line in the ...
This book explores the drawings of eminent Indian artist KM Adimoolam, well-known in India and internationally for his meticulous pen-and-ink drawings on subjects ranging from realistic portraits of Mahatma Gandhi to idealized portrayals of Indian kings and warriors, and semi-abstract depictions of Hindu gods informed by Cubism.
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. ...