ARTICLE: People, Place and Nation: Locating – Art and the Self
There are two personalities of Ramkinker Baij available to us, today, in the first decade of the twentieth century. The first one is rather simplistic. In the sculpture departments of art schools of India—perhaps in all of them—he is present there as an eccentric,...
N.S.HARSHA’s Painting:”Come, Give Us a Speech”
Harsha’s painting titled “Come, Give Us a Speech” (2008) contain too many figures. But (and) because of the innumerable figures, the ‘memory’ of what is seen is erased immediately. A recollection of how they have been ‘seen’ is also forgotten, as if seeing and...
Writing: Within and Without Visual Art
Writing about artwork/s is in fact, an act*1* which is already, always done, from within the artwork itself. Thus a positioning of art writing as subordinate to the ‘created visual’ is an intended political hierarchy and also emerges out of the notion...
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.