Author: Aditi De
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 318
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171677487
Description
Culled from the author’s 25 years as a cultural journalist, these voices-from painting, sculpture, design, photography and cartooning-seek to demystify the creative persona by emphasizing the human dimension. These free-ranging interviews, each a vignette of is time, capture the diversity of the Indian visual context without representing any particular movement or school of thought.
Between these covers, art comes to life in vivid shades through its articulate creators. Meet R K Laxman as a painter of crows. Discover M F Husain in focus as a photographer. Share K K Hebbar’s outspoken views in his last interview. Steep yourself in the lyricism of Nilima Sheikh’s paintings. And debate feminist viewpoints with Rekha Rodwittiya. Through these interviews and many more that have weathered the test of time, you’ll find yourself in the thick of the pulsing Indian art scene today.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TALKING HEADS: A Foreword by Sadanand Menon
FACE-TO-FACE: A Author’s Note
THE CREATIVE CANVAS
K K HEBBAR: Questions From a Quest
AKBAR PADAMSEE: The Mind is the Man
J SULTAN ALI: Energy as Expression
MANJIT BAWA: Art as an Attitude
JATIN DAS: Fanning the Fires Within
THE EASEL OF THE EYE
M F HUSAIN: The Camera his Brush
MASTER STROKES FROM MADRAS
ACHUTHAN KUDALLUR: The Ache of Abstraction
VISWANADHAN V: Traversing the territory of Ideas
K V HARIDASAN: The Tantric Circle
M REDDEPPA NAIDU: The Magic of the Mahabharata
SHADES OF SATIRE
R K LAXMAN: He Said It!
GENDER AS GENRE
NILIMA SHEIKH: Between the Lines of Lineages
REKHA RODWITTIYA: Tapestries of the Mind
ARNAWAZ: The Importance of Being Individual
THE POLITICS OF ART
ALTAF AND NAVJOT: Learning Left, Painting Right
A BRUSH WITH BANGALORE
BALAN NAMBIAR: The Cactus in its Clime
S G VASUDEV: A Celebration of Lifes
YUSUF AKAKKAL: Life on the Streets, and in High Places
THE FINE ART OF DESIGN
DASHRATH PATEL: Of Crumpled Messages