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Art of Bengal-Past and Present is a testimony of hundred and fifty years of art in the Bengal region. This document is indeed a celebration as well as an educational journey. It celebrates the creative achievements of a region gained under colonial bondage and later in freedom. It is an education because it endeavours to unravel a kind of creative experimentation that has hardly been portrayed holistically before. Featuring over two hundred art plates, some from ...
The ten artists featured in this book belong to the generation that largely reworked and repositioned the stance of visual art in modern India. Founded on the detailed academic study made of the period by Dr. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Dr. Bhaswati Chakravorty, Dr. Sovon Som, and Ms. Rita Datta, this book holds the glass closer to the historical, socio-cultural, and artistic conditions of the period. The book, "Art of Bengal-a vision defined" concentrates on ...
Art of Bengal—Past and Present is a testimony of hundred and fifty years of art in the Bengal region. This document is indeed a celebration as well as an educational journey. It celebrates the creative achievements of a region gained under colonial bondage and later in freedom. It is an education because it endeavours to unravel a kind of creative experimentation that has hardly been portrayed holistically before. Featuring over two hundred art plates, some ...
Jogen Chowdhury's art has an iconic quality. His expression is universal yet strangely reminiscent of a Bengali spirit. Having been educated in both Kolkata and Paris, his art straddles effortlessly between the east and the west. Yet, Jogen remains resolutely individualistic. While imbibing the spirit of western modernism, he emerges with an application which is deeply rooted in his indigenous sensibilities. In course of over four decades of sustained ...