Permanently Framing Ambiguity or the Other Way Round:
(the ever performing ‘Linearity-Line Syntax’) Puneet Kaushik, through his current set of artworks, disagrees to the agreement of difference between the cultural objects and their ‘effects’—be it that of aesthetics, politics or merely perceptual nuance. The common...
Nota pallata
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K.T. shivaprasad
K.T.ShivprasadThe book
Trends, Motifs & Affinities in the Contemporary Art of Karnataka
Umesh Maddanahalli, “?Rights Riots?”, a time-specific event at Bengaluru Palace ground, on 15th August (article published in LKContemporary no.46, Ed: Amit Mukhopdhyay, New Delhi, 2002, page: 7-15) (1) Introduction: ‘Multiple Address of a City’ The recent history of...
NEW FOOTPRINTS IN THE KNOWN PATHS
Land as the Canvas: It was the first year of twenty first century. The venue was Hampi, a Unesco site of archaeological relevance. A ten-day national art camp consisting of prominent Indian artists in their mid-50s was on. Hampi, the fifteenth century monument is a...
“MIND THE GAP”: *1*
Self, Presence, Ethics and Values in/of Art:
Case study of two works towards defining the notion of ‘Public Art’ –H.A. ANIL KUMAR (i) Contemporary Ethics in the time/context of ‘Presence’: Ethics is one of the most difficult terms to come to terms with these days. The lexican...
ARTICLE:Plato’s * Badami: A School of Thought, a Place for Nostalgia and Two Personalities
(An article published in the monographic/commemorative book about J.M.S.Mani, edited by Ramesh Chandra and published by the Ken School Old Students and Well Wishers Association, Bangalore, 2007) (J.M.S.Mani as an amalgamation of the interaction between what we...
Representational Politics of Kannada Films
Fear of the ‘ Other Urban’ Mumbai, Migration and Xenophobia in the Representational Politics of Kannada Films: –H.A. Anil Kumar Mumbai is ‘popularly’ known as a metropolitan ‘city-of-migrants’, like, say,...
Site, Sight & Soliloquy—The Tale of an Open-Ended Narrative:
SITE: The current works by Mandy Ridley ‘appear’ what they are supposed not to ‘represent’–to begin with. They contain a surface–which in reality and metaphorically–seem to recalls an abstract design-pattern. Gradually, as we...
ART Historian, author
H. A. Anil Kumar
H.A. Anil Kumar is an art educationist, art historian, critic, curator, story teller & graphic novelist, teaching and writing on Indian contemporary visual art and films since 1992. He has written, edited and co-authored books, papers and art columns, radio and television talks for both academic and popular publications and radio/television telecasts, in two languages (English and Kannada) since last three decades.
He is also a story teller and his one line quotes and stories can be read in Instagram @ ‘haanilkumar’.
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ಮೂಲ ಕೃತಿ: ಜಾನ್ ಬರ್ಜರ್| Ways of Seeing
Kannada Translation of John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’. John Berger’s 1972 television series and the book based on the series revolutionized how we view images, accusing high art of complicity in social, economic and gender inequality. It also challenged what Berger saw as the undemocratic culture of museums and galleries.
Other Books
Shantiniketan
Travelogue and a autobiography
Book 2
Varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes. Varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes.
Noduva Bage
Kannada Translation of John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’.
To Infinity
SCIENCE IS THE ART OF LEGITIMISING LOGIC AND REASONING ABILITY OF EXPRESSION WHILE ART IS SCIENCE OF CONTESTING THOSE TWO!
A LONG CHERISHED DREAM INDICATES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INEFFICIENT, LAZY, LETHARGIC ALL ALONG; & MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, UNABLE TO ACHIEVE IT, YET, BECAUSE OF YOUR SLUMBER!
– H A ANIL KUMAR
IF MEDICINE CURES, ART HEALS; THAT’S WHY THE WRITINGS OF DOCTORS ARE EASILY DECIPHERABLE THAN THAT OF THE ARTISTS.