ARTIST'S BOOKS
Sketches Scribbles Drawings
K.G. Subramanyan
Rs 2500 £
60.00 $ 95.00
ISBN 81 7046 150 2
Hb: 314 pp 334 colour illus
Includes his early sketches from 1968, the black and
white drawings for his reverse paintings from 1980, his China, Japan,
London and Oxford sketches, drawings of nature, and figure studies. The
volume opens with a thoughtful introduction by K.G. Subramanyan, reflecting
on the importance and purpose of such sketches and drawings for an artist,
and looking back on his experiences over a long and eminent career.
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The Tale of the Talking Face
K.G. Subramanyan
Rs 140 £
11.95 $ 17.95
ISBN 81 7046 149 9
Hb: 46pp fully illustrated
The eminent artist K.G. Subramanyan offers this wisely
satirical reading of democracy gone wrong.
Fables for the Here and Now
| K.G.
Subramanyan
How
Hanu became Hanuman
Rs30 £ 2.95 $ 3.95 ISBN 81 7046 135 9
Pb: 20pp
Death in Eden
Rs30 £ 2.95 $ 3.95 ISBN 81 7046 137
5
Pb: 20pp
In
the Zoo
Rs30 £ 2.95 $ 3.95 ISBN 81 7046 136
7
Pb: 16pp
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A set of three fun fables which, combined with bold,
arresting graphics in rust and black, are a visual treat, speaking to
children as well as adults in a whimsical language all their own
Ogres, Beasts and Men
K.G. Subramanyan
When God first
made animals.
Rs 30 £
2.95 $ 3.95 ISBN81 7046 013 1
Pb:28pp
The King
and the Little Man.
Rs 30 £ 2.95 $ 3.95 ISBN81 7046 012 3
Pb:24pp
Our
friends the Ogres.
Rs 30 £ 2.95 $ 3.95 ISBN81 7046 011 5
Pb:24pp
Time's Harvest
Amaresh Dutta
and Jogen Chowdhury
A cycle
of Poems and Drawings
Based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata
Rs 450 £
30.00 $ 55.00
ISBN 81 7046 117 0
Hb: 86 pp 27 colour illus
The vivid drawings
in the vigorous and inimitable style of master artist
complement the deeply humane tone of the poems. The artist spent a long
time in the world of the poems, getting to know them well before he began
to work on his part of the collaboration. The result is a suite of visuals
which combine with the words to create a poetry uniquely their own.
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Kalo and the Koel:
Stories
by Meera Mukherjee
Tr.
Anjum Katyal
Rs 85
£ 7.95 $ 11.95 ISBN 81 7046 154
5
Pb: 32
Catching
Fish and Other Stories.
Rs 95 £
7.95 $ 11.95 ISBN 81 7046 180 4
Pb:52pp
Little Flower Shefali and Other Stories.
Rs 95 £ 7.95 $ 11.95 ISBN81 7046 179
0
Pb:52
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Meera Mukherjee was one of India's leading sculptors,
a pioneer who mined tribal and folk bronze 'lost wax' techniques and idioms
to express her contemporary sensibility, a rebel woman artist whose life
choices demonstrated her rootedness in the material conditions of her
creativity.
Whimsical, impulsive and deeply sensitive, her art moves easily from the
physical to the spiritual, from the nuanced detail to symbolic abstraction.
It is this quality, of simultaneously inhabiting both the everyday and
the spiritual worlds, that comes to life in this collection of delightful
stories, written and charmingly illustrated by her.
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Song for Kali
A Cycle
of Drawings and Songs
Nirode Mazumdar Interprets Ramprasad
Tr. Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak
Rs 375
£ 21.95 $ 30.95
ISBN 81 7046 155 3
Hb:56pp(approx.) b/w illustrated throughout
Ramprasad(c.1720-1781)
is a much-loved, much-sung mystic poet of Bengal, whose violently intimate
relationship with his goddess, the awesome Kali, inspired spiritual love
poetry which lives and breathes on the skin.
Nirode Mazumdar, a painter whose own quest led him deep into the
myths and values of his heritage, responded with visuals evoked by his
passionate feeling for these fervid lyrics. A bilingual Bengali-French
edition emerged, with the Bengali poetry and a French translation by the
artist and his wife Marguerite, alongside the artist's drawings.
Years later scholar-translator-critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
launched on a translation into English. Now, this unusual collaboration
across space and time is reborn in its incarnation as a rich volume of
poetry and illuminations.
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