by admin | Jun 30, 2014 | General
Two important questions about art history’s relation to art education are: “when is a work of art complete?” and “how did an artwork get entangled within a single framework?” The former is a philosophical quest, unanswerable, similar to the...
by admin | Jun 23, 2014 | Articles, General
To draw is a verb, more than a noun, in the visual cultural representation of India. Despite the historic uncertainties of its origin in the Indian art context, its relevance with political independence is deeply etched. The new nation’s political will was to act (as...
by admin | Jun 18, 2014 | Articles, General, History of Art and Artists in Karnataka
(Article first published under the same title in www.cartanart.com on 16th June 2014; edited by Johny M.L and Sushma Sabnis) Discourse on caste politics in Indian visual culture is a taboo, a sacrilege while it might not be actually so in practice. The reason for...
by admin | Jun 10, 2014 | Articles, General
A couple of years ago I was discussing about the nature of discourse around visual arts with a professor from Santiniketan. Obviously he was from the department of art history. “Things are fine with Cultural Study, but what happens to Art History in that case?” he...
by admin | Jun 4, 2014 | Articles, General, History of Art and Artists in Karnataka, Kannada Literature, Performative-Photo
(Article originally published in Art & Deal monthly magazine, Issue 72, vol.10, No.40, June 2014; also available at www.artanddeal.com, published by Art Konsult, Edited by Siddharth Tagore and Paramjot Wohra) Incident 1: A couple of years ago, I saw a performance...
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