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ART HISTORY
Price Rs 425 £ 20 $ 35.50 Karuna Shaha (1921-1996) was one of the first women students to enroll in
the Government College of Art and Crafts, Calcutta, and amongst the first woman artists who
persisted-indeed, insisted-on claiming professional space in her own right. She exhibited
regularly, continuing with her drawing, sketching and painting right till the end of her life.
She was a founder member of The Group, a collective of women artists.
Rs 150 £
14.95 $ 20.95
'K.G. Subramanyan offers a theoretical groundwork for
his critical study of modern Indian art as it has evolved through continuous
interaction with several traditions'.
Rs 250 £
16.95 $ 23.95 This series of five lectures revolves around certain
issues relating to modern art, particularly modern Indian art. The lectures
discuss certain common terms and concepts -such as modernity, eclecticism,
nostalgia- which have entered our art vocabulary, and which lend themselves
to reinterpretation today.
Rs 70 £
8.95 $ 12.95
In the winter
of 1946, Somenath Hore, one of the India's major painter-sculptors, was
assigned by the Communist Party to document the Tebhaga movement in North
Bengal. A young art student at the time, Hore witnessed the massive mobilization
taking place in a network of villages, amd captured the widespread spirit
of peasant consciousness and militant solidarity, all the more remarkable
at a time when communalism was rife in national politics. One can see in
these sketches the rugged lines since transformed into sculptured forms,
but charged with the same intensity of anguish and anger; and the seeds
of the vision that infuses his work today.
Rs 450 £
30.00 $ 55.00
Ashit Paul, artist and designer, offers a collection
of early Calcutta woodprints-mythological, social scenes, book illustrations
and advertising-all from between 1816 and the early years of the twentieth
century, with four essays by scholars and artists on different aspects
of this popular urban art tradition. They project an image of Calcutta
rarely revealed in such graphic candour and richness, with a whole history
of manners, mores, traditional beliefs and conflicts, often with humour
and invariably with a sense of down-to-earth realism.
Rs 300 £
16.95 $ 20.00 It was probably a priest or an agent on Louis XV's orders
for exotica for the Royal Library who picked up a collection of 105 Indian
miniatures and carried it to Paris from where it made its way to the collection
of the enlightened Polish King, Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski. Ms Marta
Jakomiwcz Shah, Indologist and art historian, reproduces almost all of
these paintings, about a quarter of them in colour, with elaborate annotations,
and a scholarly introduction underlining the characteristics of this little-known
school of art.
Rs 750 £
30.00 $ 55.00
Santiniketan holds a unique position in the cultural
history of India, as the embodiment of a concept and an ideal which was
part of what is largely regarded as a cultural renaissance in the early
part of the century. This monograph is an effort to bring these murals
before a wider public and to describe their background. It contains a
general survey of the murals, detailed descriptions of the major works
and their historical background, and brief discussions on techniques and
themes. It is a useful source book focusing epecially on the pioneering
works by Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee. It also
presents the few murals done in more recent years by contemporary artists
like K.G. Subramanyan and Somenath Hore
Rs 320 £
25 $ 30 Gurusaday Dutt
(1882-1941), a civilian in colonial India, spent a lifetime collecting
and studying art objects and handiwork from the remotest recesses of undivided
rural Bengal. Dutt's thesis of an indigenous Bengal school, argued with
passion and painstaking documentation, opens up yet another area in the
mainstream-regional arts discourse
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The Living Tradition 
The Creative Circuit 
