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Though art historian and scholar R. Siva Kumar describes the Paintings of Gaganendranath Tagore as ‘primarily a book of images’ with its large body of the Master’s works reproduced in a large format, in fact the largest collection so far, it unravels a sparsely documented narrative that pieces together a series of personal losses and the corresponding creative responses as they add up to a rich prospect covering richly nuanced landscapes, ...
The Vision of Ray is virtually an album of Satyajit Ray's cine-posters and other artworks exclusively related to his films. Ray made 28 feature films, five documentaries and two short films. He is perhaps the only film director in the world who designed all the promotional materials of his films. All these materials--posters, pre-shooting sketches, billboards, drawings, lobby cards, leaflets, handbills, glass slides, logos, memorabilia--are from the rare ...
Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) is a singular figure in Modern Indian Art. Having arrived on the Indian art scene with the first wave of nationalism, he was seen as father figure of nationalist art and modernism. Along with E B Havell, Coomaraswamy, Sister Nivedita and other nationalists he brought an attitudinal change in the Indian response to traditional art. But his true contribution went beyond these. Trained under European artists initially, realism ...