Readymade Answers to Eternal Artistic Quests

Readymade Answers to Eternal Artistic Quests

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...
ARTICLE: To Draw is to Articulate, Not Yield!

ARTICLE: To Draw is to Articulate, Not Yield!

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...
What is right with Indian Art History?

What is right with Indian Art History?

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...