The research papers included in this compilation offer a wide spectrum of thoughtful writing on visual and performing arts ranging from Silpa textual studies, Odissi dance, tribal, rural arts to contemporary painting and sculpture. The anthology also mirrors its concern about child centered art education and presents alternative modules for its implementation. Written in a lucid style it reflects the scholarly insight, critical vision and firm conviction of an ...
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 ...