As the title suggests, Elizabeth Brunner: Her Life – Her Words, is a delightful collection of stories written by the Hungarian artist who came to India in 1930 with her mother, Elizabeth Sass Brunner, and made it her home. The book, with an introduction by Dr Imre Lázár, contains her experiences in this country. It also contains rare photographs and beautiful paintings that the Brunners created.
The talented artists are well known in India and Hungary. Their art reflects their experiences in various parts of the world, highlighting their encounters with personalities such as Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Dalai Lama, among others.
Published on the occasion of the birth centenary of Elizabeth Brunner, this book is a treasure, both in words and images. It is all the more special because of the deep love the mother and daughter had for India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Imre Lazar
Imre Lazar graduated as a medical doctor from Semmelweis University of Medicine and in 1999 became an expert of occupational medicine. He has a Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology from the Brunel University and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since the foundation of the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at Semmelweis University, Lazar has been teaching in the Medical Anthropology department and in 2004 he became its head. He is also associate professor at the Institute of Communication and Social Sciences, K.roli G.sp.r University of Reformed Church, Budapest. Helle Johannessen has a PhD in anthropology from University of Copenhagen and has done research and teaching in medical anthropology since the mid-1980s. She is currently associate professor at the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, where she is head of a research unit and a PhD program for social studies in medicine. In her research she has studied medical pluralism in Denmark and Europe. She is currently involved with a comparative study of the use of complementary medicine among cancer patients in Denmark, Italy and India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kapila Vatsyayan
Kapila Vatsyayan artist and art historian is internationally acknowledged as the pioneer of evolving alternate models of research for establishing inter and intra-relationship of different domains of knowledge and creativity. Her own work moves from a deep understanding of the primary textual sources of the East and West, principally Sanskrit and English, and a direct experience of the arts as performer. It focuses attention on the inter relationship of the concept and creative interpretation in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and dance. The kinetic image enables her to delve deeper into the textual and oral sources and the fundamental metaphysics which govern form and structure of the arts. She has convincingly drawn attention to the sacred geometry which pervades all the Indian arts. As visualiser of the conceptual plan of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, she leaps across many disciplines, questions the conventional boundaries and finally establishes several bridges of communication between traditional thought and modern science. This has resulted in many multi-disciplinary studies of space and time, nature and culture, man and society, chaos and order. Her holistic integral vision is explicit in the volumes she has edited on these subjects. Her first work, Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts, is a milestone by experts the world over. This work was followed by many others including the definitive study of Dance in Indian Painting, The Theoretical Basis of Asian Aesthetic Traditions; Traditional Indian Theatre: Multiple Streams; six volumes on Gita Govinda; Bharata and the Natyasastra; and the Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts. She has edited the volumes on Concepts of Space: Ancient and Modern and Concepts of Time: Ancient and Modern published by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.
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