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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter. Here is a well-researched, concise guide to protest art, exploring what happens when artists join forces with radical political movements to foster change. The works and movements discussed emerged at times of great upheaval, war, colonialism, independence and changes of government, and reveal how art and politics have been intertwined throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Jessica Lack adopts an inclusive and international approach, presenting examples from nations and societies around the globe, including: Sylvia Pankhurst's paintings depicting the harsh realities faced by women manual workers in early 1900s Britain; the revolutionary aesthetic created by Emory Douglas for the Black Panthers in the 1960s, which documented and galvanized the campaign for the rights of Black Americans; Nandalal Bose's portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, which became the iconic symbol of the Indian non-violence movement in the 1930s; and the Chilean direct action work that contributed to the collapse of General Pinochet's government. Each of the nine chapters addresses different ways in which art has been used to effect political transformation, taking in humour and satire, performance and propaganda, art's relationships to institutions, the media, conflict and the state, and its uses as a weapon, a galvanizing force and a way of refusing the status quo. Artistic acts, collectives and movements are examined in their context, revealing how they have influenced other artists and changed the wider political and artistic world. An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Constitution and its Making takes a peek into the history of the making of the Indian Constitution, on its 71st birthday. While in the USA, their Founders are revered as demigods and tomes have piled up over 2 centuries and continue to, in India, our Constituent Assembly, its members- 299 of them- and the Debates- over 3 years- they had engaged in, have largely remained in wraps , to the ordinary folks, as Justice V R Krishna Iyer put it. With intent to catch the laymen along with the lawmen, the author has gone anecdotal, with nuggets and vignettes of rare and unknown vintage. How many of us know that it was Prem Behari Narain Raizada, Delhi who hand wrote the two copies of Constitution in English and Hindi; and he laid two conditions to Jawaharlal Nehru, who approached him: he would affix his signature at the end of each page and on the last pages of the two copies, he would write his grandfather s name, in obeisance, for it was he who brought him up, after Raizada was orphaned early. While ours has 395 Articles and has undergone 103 amendments in 70 years, and is the longest, the US has 7 Articles and has undergone just 27 amendments in over 233 years. Nandalal Bose and his Shanthiniketan team had illuminated the 2 copies with 22 illustrations on India s 4000 plus years old civilisational journey. And so many more fascinating facts of delightful melody.

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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1918 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 290 Rabindranath Tagore.

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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1919 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 320 Language: English Pages: 320.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1918 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 335 Language: English.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents 1. Sankha Ghosh foreword. 2. Debashis Chanda before the beginning. 3. Nandalal Bose. 4. Hemendranath Mazumdar. 5. Pradosh Dasgupta. 6. Nikhil Biswas. 7. Sovon Som. 8. Rabin Mondal. 9. Prokash Karmakar. 10. Ganesh Haloi. 11. Ramananda Bandyopadhyay. 12. Jogen Chowdhury. 13. Sunil Das. 14. Indranath Bandyopadhyay. 15. Shuvaprasanna. 16. Tapas Konar. 17. Samir Aich. 18. Sanjay Bhattacharyya. 19. Sanjay Ghosh. 20. Parag Roy. 21. Samindranath Mazumdar. 22. Tanmoy Mridha. 23. Aridam Chattopadhyay. 24. Mithu Sen. 25. Eleena Banik. Abanindranath Tagore once remarked Is an artist obliged only to paint. Surge of creativity may often hurtle him into different media of expression. In his youth Rabindranath Tagore also light heartedly wrote that he did not intend to disappoint any of the muses that he longed to try his hand at everything even painting. This is how a poet wants to step outside poetry and an artist wishes to explore beyond painting. In the history of art and literature there are numerous such instances of border crossing right under our eyes. Visual Rhapsody is a fascinating tale of this border crossing. A collection of poems drawings and paintings by 23 trail blazing Bengali artists it captures the essence of the art of Bengal in poetic and visual format as it has never been depicted before. A bilingual publication in Bengali and English its appeal lies in the editor's ability to assimilate and blend such a compelling range so exquisitely without overwhelming the reader. Visual Rhapsody is a magical presentation of masters both pas0t and present where art meets art and leaves us forever warmed by its afterglow. 144 pp.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 176 Seiten, 119 Abb. 17 x 24 cm - Werke von Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger und Johannes Itten sowie von weiteren Bauhauskünstlern wurden bei diesem ersten internationalen Auftritt des Bauhauses neben Arbeiten moderner indischer Künstler wie Nandalal Bose, Sunayani Devi sowie Abanindranath und Gaganendranath Tagore präsentiert. Die Publikation zeigt auf, wie es zu dieser außergewöhnlichen Begegnung kam und stellt die damalige Ausstellung als exemplarischen Fall für eine Kunstgeschichte vor, die, statt über westöstliche Transmissionen zu berichten, über gemeinsame Visionen schreibt.

Orig.-Broschur. Condition: Sehr gut. 128 Seiten. Sehr guter Zustand. Auf einer Seite finden sich Markierungen. Englischer Ausstellungsführer durch die Ausstellung Bauhaus Imiginista im HKW, Berlin. - Very good copy, one page with marks by the previous owner. English guide and textbook through the exhibition Bauhaus Imiginista at HKW, Berlin. - EN: Since its foundation in 1919, the Bauhaus was in contact with other avant-garde movements worldwide. bauhaus imaginista proposes a rereading of the Bauhaus as a cosmopolitan project with global resonances: A major exhibition and two conferences trace transnational relations, correspondences, and narratives of migration, going beyond the years the Bauhaus was active as a school (until 1933). For the first time, the project tracks the translation of Bauhaus concepts into different political and geographical contexts. The title bauhaus imaginista hints at the imaginative possibilities which were opened up by the Bauhaus, and the multilayered interpretations that the term still denotes today. Between archival findings and contemporary contributions, the project translates the historical perspective into a set of contemporary questions: How, in the spirit of the Bauhaus, might culture be reimagined as a social project today? What kinds of institutions would such a project need? And in what ways does the Bauhaus still stimulate visionary practices and discourses today? The exhibition places the Bauhaus in context with like-minded schools in other parts of the world. It reflects the artistic exploration of craft techniques, materials, and practices; examines how Bauhaus concepts on socially integrated design were transformed, adjusted, and challenged; and uncovers how the innovative use of media at the Bauhaus influences art and pop culture even today. Since March 2018, exhibitions, symposia, and workshops in Rabat, Hangzhou, New York, Kyoto, and Tokyo, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Lagos, and Delhi have been realized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institutes and local partners. Now bauhaus imaginista culminates with an expanded overview at HKW. Curated by Marion von Osten and Grant Watson in collaboration with a team of international researchers and artists. With works by Anni Albers, Gertrud Arndt, Kader Attia, Lena Bergner, Nandalal Bose, Ahmed Cherkaoui, Alice Creischer, Zvi Efrat, Luca Frei, Walter Gropius, Doreen Mende, Hannes Meyer, Takehiko Mizutani, László Moholy-Nagy, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Hélio Oiticica, The Otolith Group, Lygia Pape, Paulo Tavares, Iwao Yamawaki, and many more. A collaboration between the Bauhaus Cooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar, the Goethe-Institut and HKW" (HKW Archive) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Hardcover with dustjacket : good plus / poor. Book: moisture bubbling and stains to top inch or less of binding; jacket flaps are pasted to inside boards; end pastedowns are a bit bubbled; lower front interior hinge just starting but holding well; red stamp on ffep; pages are in excellent condition. Jacket: edges tattered and chipped; small sticker on back; lower 1/4 of spine missing. The text is almost completely in what appears to be Bengali or Assamese, with sparse English; the text for the title above is in English on the copyright page; color and b&w plates. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Rock salt of character. 2. An era of eclectic minds. 3. Not a generation of midnights children. 4. Intellectual validity came from foreign shores. 5. Southern sojourn and other paradoxical journeys. 6. Dance became her Talisman. 7. Banaras a boat ride of relearning. 8. In the corridors of bureaucracy. 9. Maulana Sahab s Deep commitment to heritage. 10. The arts as pedagogical tool. 11. Almora was a primordial call. 12. Intra-cultural dialogues. 13. Maiden oriental discourse in the orient. 14. Gita Govinda-a fathomless discovery. 15. Revival of Buddhist and Sanskrit studies. 16. Institutions outlast the individuals. A life beyond categories perhaps that s the quintessence of Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan s trajectory both as a sensitive artist and profound scholar. She has not only questioned, but also defied the mindsets that create those categories, with her multidisciplinary approach. Given her proximity to the stalwarts of the intellectual and cultural arena, i.e. Aruna Asaf Ali, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley, and many more, she imbibed the finer nuances of feminine discourse of these strident pioneers, who crossed the social barriers and altered the gender perceptions. In blissful formative years. Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore made her recite poetry, and legendary Nandalal Bose taught her to hold the painting brush at Santiniketan. She belongs to the generation that nurtured the ideals of a free India, to rediscover its cultural roots and reconstruct the broken tradition. And she devoted her boundless energy towards that lofty goal working closely with Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Dr S. Radhakrishnan. The original cultural czarina of India, she laid the foundation of soft diplomacy in the post Independence era, signing numerous cultural treaties across the world and formulating bilateral exchange programmes. Building institutions, she delineated education and cultural policies with her gifted tenacity, exemplary erudition, and critical faculty. Arguably, a great living authority and critical faculty. Arguably, a great living authority on the arts of India, and a key administrator in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, archives, museums, et al, her multifaceted expertise has facilitated several bridges of communication, especially between the Indian and the Western arts. Dr. Vatsyayan has both witnessed and participated in the agony and ecstasy of the cultural history of India, seeking the inner core of its creative genius in all the vibrant hues. Though there may have been an inevitable clash between the innocent idealism of a bygone era and rueful reality of the contemporary saga, it s been a journey worth emulating. More so, for the young aspirants of a post-modern India, this tome is a must read. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Santati is a Hindi word meaning continuum, an infinite loop.This book is a compilation of a traveling exhibition commemorating 150 years of Mahatma Gandhi and the impact of his message then, now, next. Having shown across India, this is a first of its kind tribute to Gandhi's life, paid through art. It brings together pioneering artists and works in the disciplines of painting, design, textile, architecture and poetry as they reflect on their Gandhi. This is a journey into the subtle truths of a mind that became a universal phenomenon. Art featured in the book travels across a century and includes works of eminent artists like Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij, Raja Ravi Varma, VS Gaitonde, Gaurang Shah, Klove, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Gaurav Gupta, Jean Francois Lesage and Ashiesh Shah besides rare collections from the NGMA, IGNCA and JJ School of Art.

Blue cloth, gilt on spine. With illustrations by Nandalal Bose e.a. 123 pp-. -good.-(Wear and heavy spotting on the cover, fly-leaves browned, but otherwsie the book is in good condition.).

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface and acknowledgments. The story of this book. 1. Ramkinkar a biographical sketch. 2. About Ramkinkar's sculptures. 3. Ramkinkar's Sculptures Photographs. 4. Ramkinkar's Sculptures List of photographs. 5. Ramkinkar in his own words. 6. Ramkinkar through the eyes of his friends students and associates. 7. Ramkinkar's Sculptures A list of known works. 8. Ramkinkar's life and work a chronology. 9. Ramkinkar a select bibliography. Ramkinkar Vaij (1906 1980) a significant artist of twentieth century India is regarded as the first major figure in modern Indian sculpture. Born into a poor family in Bankura District Bengal he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan at the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore at the age of 19. Having made his home and found his creative metier there as a student first and a teacher later he was one of the pioneering trio of artists along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee who made Santiniketan the most important centre for art in India between 1920 and 1947. Ramkinkar as he was probably known was a man who had enormous gifts but never aired them an artist who was single minded in his pursuit of work but treated the results with philosophic unconcern. Indifferent to success fame and money he lived an unworldly and capricious life. His works reflect a great zest for the gifts of nature and deep concern for the conditions of poor and labouring people. The subject of this book is Ramkinkar's Sculptures as seen through the photographic lens of Devi Prasad supplemented by discussions on the artist's life and work in his own words and through the eyes of his students friends and associates. Devi Prasad who was student at Kala Bhavan during 1938 44 went back to Santiniketan as a Visiting Professor in the year 1978. During his stay there he undertook a photographic study of 60 odd sculptures of Ramkinkar. Towards the end of that year during the seventh Pous celebrations he exhibited nearly 150 of these photographs in three halls of Kala Bhavan. Ramkinkar himself though in poor health by then inaugurated the exhibition he was deeply moved to see such a large photographic representation of his works. This book on Ramkinkar's Sculptures by Devi Prasad is published as a tribute to mark the artist's birth centenary year. 229 pp.

Hardcover. New Illustrated Edition. Octavo, [1], xxvii, [3], 221 pages with numerous illustrations. Good+. Bound in contemporary blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; Spine sunned with moderate fraying to head and tail; Minor marking to boards; minor wear to edges and corners; Text block slightly shaken with cracking to hinges; Text block age-toned and slightly foxed. SH consignment. 1360421. Special Collections.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art.This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century onwards, and the role of Britain in these developments.This is the first publication to address this remarkable painting tradition on a transhistorical and transnational scale. Readers are invited to admire the formal, technical and conceptual innovations of some of the most exciting historic and contemporary artists from South Asia, while reflecting on questions of culture and power in the entangled histories of empire and globalization.Many of the greatest collections of South Asian paintings are held in Britain, and some of the pivotal encounters that shaped this story happened in London. The process of these acquisitions and their central role within British and South Asian art histories are explored in this book. The book also demonstrates how the traditions of South Asian miniature painting have been reclaimed and reinvented by modern and contemporary artists, exploding beyond the pages of illuminated manuscripts to experimental forms that include installation, sculpture and film. While miniature painting represented a strand of cultural resistance to colonial rule in the early twentieth century, artists continue to find contemporary relevance in the possibilities offered by this tradition.Beyond the Page is richly illustrated with historic works from the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Library, the British Museum, the Ashmolean, the Bodleian Library and the Royal Collection Trust. It also features work by artists from different generations working in dialogue with the miniature tradition, including Hamra Abbas, David Alesworth, Nandalal Bose, Noor Ali Chagani, Lubna Chowdhary, Adbur Rahman Chughtai, Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin, N.S. Harsha, Howard Hodgkin, Ali Kazim, Bhupen Khakhar, Jess MacNeil, Imran Qureshi, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Mohan Samant, Nilima Sheikh, the Singh Twins, Shahzia Sikander and Abanindranath Tagore.

79 col. illus, figs, maps (illustrator). Contents Preface 1 Tradition and Modernity in Indian Arts 2 Formative Factors for the Revival of Arts 3 Search for Identity 4 Satellites of Bengal School 5 Experimentation vis a vis Tradition 6 Development of Indian Modernism Bibliography Index The present monograph Tradition and Modernity in Indian Arts is an exhaustive study of the concepts of tradition and modernism in visual arts of painting and sculpture It tries to unveil the untouched and lesser known facets of Indian artistic tradition during the first half of the twentieth century The author has discussed the efforts of groups of thinkers social workers and artists for the search of identity and idiom of Indian artistic tradition and its transformation into modern The work starts with the hypothesis that tradition and modernity are not opposed to each other but parts of a continuous process It explodes the general view that Indian artistic tradition was lost before the advent of British education The emergence of Bengal School and its attaining the status of a national modern school of painting has been illustrated with supportive arguments This work highlights the role of the pupils of Abanindranath and Nandalal Bose as promoters and transformers of Indian tradition into modern throughout India It also succinctly deals with the interaction of these artists with other art centres at Bombay Delhi and Madras The common thread between them was that artists at all centres resisted intervention of the British Government in art education Some of the centres were inclined to adhere to tradition Others opposed it in the beginning but after experimentation in Western idiom of art reverted to their roots and enriched Indian tradition by assimilating in it the western techniques of art The book presents a comprehensive picture of the status and developments in painting and sculpture and other graphic arts in India during the first half of the twentieth century It contains 79 coloured illustrations and 28 black and white figures jacket 226 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Artistic scenario in China in the early twentieth century after the dynastic fall-few nascent polemics. 2. Realism and tradition-criticism and comments. 3. Towards the East-West artistic integration in quest of new generation artists. 4. Sino Indian Artistic relations in early 20th century a flashback. 5. Lingnan school in China and its Japanese connection a review. 6. Gao Jianfu his artistic destination to India. 7. Xu Beihong in Santiniketan-artistic activities and interactions. 8. Nihar Ranjan Choudhury his Ink Brush. 9. Shi Lu and his journey to India a stylistic transformation. 10. Rhythmic Asian women-Ye Qianyu and his brush drawings. 11. Re-Painting India-Lin Yong s visit to India. Epilogue. Selected bibliography. Courtesy for plates. List of plates. This book focuses on the multiple interactions and exchanges between Sino-Indian artists in the early part of 20th century in a large backdrop of modern art discourse in Asia. This backdrop witnessed a quest for Asian modernity in colonial and post dynastic Asian nations. Bengal school in particular paved a new artistic and aesthetic movement under the leadership of Abanindra Nath Tagore and E.B. Havell. In this process, Okakura Tenshin a leading Japanese scholar and art critic played a seminal role to facilitate the movement and through his initiation artists of Bengal came in touch with Japanese artists to comprehend the remarkable success of new Japanese Art. China a major Asian nation witnessed a new quest for modernity in art after the dynastic decline in 1911 and got new momentum in May Fourth Movement in 1919. We come across Chinese artists after the visit of Rabindra Nath Tagore and Nandalal Bose in 1924 to China. Since then few Chinese and Indian artists had an urge to know each other to understand the new developments in art of both the leading Asian nations. But these important interactions went unnoticed. This book is an attempt to unearth the various modes of artistic exchanges and dialogues to know each other in 20th century. (jacket).

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword. 1. The forest of the Brahmanas. 2. The middle class. 3. Disillusion and new dreams. 4. A journey in common sense politics. 5. Emergence of Hindu fascism. 6. Bollywood a global phenomenon. 7. Delusions and national development. 8. The fourth estate. Artist profiles. Confident of its future but proud of its past this new India is a markedly different place from the country that gained freedom that August midnight in 1947. How this came to be is a fascinating study that this volume records through words and visuals. Essays by finest minds analyze various aspects of the nation's progress while paintings by India's best and brightest reveal startling yet enthralling ways of seeing these changes. A self assured middle class is one the clearest markers of this new India. Usually seen as an economic classification the article here by India's leading sociologist Andre Beteille shows for the first time how it is also a social formation with certain distinctive features found only in most modern societies. At the same time former economic advisor and well known columnist Ashok Desai demolishes shibboleths that have clouded a proper understanding of the Indian economy and its transition from a poor destitute colony that the British abandoned in despair sixty year ago to its present status as the world's fourth largest economy. Aruna Roy winner of the 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership records her firsthand experience in the making of the right to information act to make political power more accountable and hence shows that the world's largest democracy really works. While Oxford historian Tapan Raychaudhuri traces the emergence of Hindu fascism the other side of our polity. Another sign of the times is seen in the country's buoyant media. India's was always one of the world's largest film industries but till recently it was never much respected either for the quality of its output or even its sheer size. Today Bollywood mania envelopes the world. Columnist and television presenter Vir Sanghvi records the making of Bollywood as a global phenomenon. And historian journalist Rudrangshu Mukherjee traces the history of the country's fiercely independent print media and its response to the invasion from bullish electronic journalism. The past however is very much present in this book as in the whole of India. The learned article by Indologist Roberto Calasso on the Satpatha Brahmanas shows the rich ancient heritage that modern India is built upon. Memory is the presence of the past and carries with it a text of loss absence nostalgia and pathos. One of Bengal's most significant contemporary writers Sunil Gangopadhyay's poem the only poem in this collection is about the trauma of partition. In the absence of monuments to commemorate the division of India literature has created the memorials through which India remembers. The insight offered by the writers is enhanced by artists impressions of their homeland. Here too the continuum that is India is the guiding principle. Venerated masters like Ramkinkar Baij Nandalal Bose V.S. Gaitonde Ganesh Pyne Jogen Chowdhury Somnath Hore M.F. Husain Sailoz Mookherjea Meera Mukherjee stand side by side with current luminaries like Biju Parthan Shreyasi Chatterjee Subodh Gupta Shakila as well as midnight's children like Mona Rai and Amitava Das. Folk art that transcends the boundaries of conventional art form is represented through works of artists like Bhuribai Swarno Chitrakar Mayank Kumar Shyam Ram Singh Urveti. There can be no doubt that the sixty plates of paintings by sixty artists make this book a collector's item. 218 pp.

Ramkinkar Vaij 1906-1980 a significant artist of twentieth-century India is regarded as the first major figure in modern Indian sculpture Born into a poor family in Bankura district Bengal he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan at the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore at the age of 19 Having made his home and found his creative métier there as a student first and a teacher later he was one of the pioneering trio of artists along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee who made Santiniketan the most important centre for art in India between 1920 and 1947Ramkinkar as he was popularly known was a man who had enormous gifts but never aired them; an artist who was singleminded in his pursuit of work but treated the results with philosophic unconcern Indifferent to success fame and money he lived an unworldly and capricious life His works reflect a great zest for the gifts of nature and deep concern for the conditions of poor and labouring peopleThe subject of this book is Ramkinkar?s sculptures as seen through the photographic lens of Devi Prasad supplemented by discussions on the artist?s life and work in his own words and through the eyes of his students friends and associates Devi Prasad who was a student at Kala Bhavan during 1938-44 went back to Santiniketan as a Visiting Professor in the year 1978 During his stay there he undertook a photographic study of 60-odd sculptures of Ramkinkar Towards the end of that year during the seventh Pous celebrations he exhibited nearly 150 of these photographs in three halls of Kala Bhavan Ramkinkar himself though in poor health by then inaugurated the exhibition; he was deeply moved to see such a large photographic representation of his worksThis book on Ramkinkar?s sculptures by Devi Prasad is published as a tribute to mark the artist?s birth centenary year.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Alipore Bomb Trial or Maniktala Conspiracy Case, as it is popularly known, occupies a significant place in the history of India s freedom struggle. Having failed to kill Lieutenant-Governor Andrew Fraser after two attempts, on 30 April 1908, two teenagers named Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki blasted a carriage at Muzaffarpur, Bihar mistaking it in darkness as the carrier of D H Kingsford, former Chief Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta. The Government acted with speed and success, and eventually 36 persons, including Sri Aurobindo, Barindra Kumar Ghose (younger brother of Sri Aurobindo), Upendra Nath Banerjee, Ullaskar Datta, Hemchandra Das were arrested and committed to trial in Alipore Sessions Court for waging war against the King-Emperor . Alipore Bomb Trial, 1908-1910: A Compilation of Unpublished Documents, Volume 1, which includes hitherto unpublished documents related to the trial vis-a-vis the statements of all 206 witnesses along with 1,575 documents and materials placed before the court, is an invaluable companion for the students, researchers, academia and the general readership as well. With a researcher s acumen coupled with his long experience in dealing with criminal intelligence, the author critically examines the issues like Aurobindo s ideas on violent struggle and much published influence of religion on early revolutionary terrorism, circumstances that led to the expansion of the secret societies, daring actions like the murder of Naren Gossain, the approver, inside the jail, killing of Police Officer Nandalal Banerji for trying to arrest Prafulla Chaki at Mokama Ghat Station, elimination of Ashutosh Biswas for acting as the prosecutor in the case, assassination of Rai Bahadur Moulavi Shamsul Alam for fabricating evidence against the accused and murder of Intelligence Officer Madhusudan Bhattacharya who traced the Garden as the centre of conspiracy .

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A young student at Shantiniketan was studying a tree, to unravel how the petals part. Walking past him, Nandalal Bose said: "If you persist, the tree will accept you in its shade and even let you walk in." That had set off Krishna Reddy on his artistic quest. Later, the exploration of nature beyond the limitations of the visible world developed into a spiritual curiosity about the cosmos that in turn led to devising ways to overcome technical difficulties in creating icons of distilled beauty which reduced the appearances of objects to their pure and essential forms. This creativity is in itself a process of learning for the artist and his students alike. it enables an observer to peer into the innermost essence of things and ponder on the universe in constant upheaval. The inward life of the cosmos itself is brought before us all through his viscosity prints. Krishna Reddy worked a revolution in printmaking by discovering this method of printing numerous colours from a single metal plate. Experiments in the possibilities of simultaneous colour printing remained unpredictable until Krishna analysed the oil contents of inks and effected ways of controlling that.The impact was a reliable viscosity print: graphic artists could now work with the intensity of tones and range of colours in a single print. That, along with the spirituality of his art, makes Krishna Reddy a legend in his lifetime. Shantiniketan is only one of 250 universities to have him as an artist in residence. A museum in Bangalore devotes a wing to his prints. Paris and London, Ljubljana and Venice, Australia and Argentina, Morocco and China, biennales and triennales boast his retrospectives. Solo shows, multiple workshops, lectures, publications, portfolios-Krishna Reddy's life is buzzing with activity. For Krishna, it is not enough to produce his art; one is responsible for sharing one's knowledge, too. This book is an attempt to portray this artist with a message. It is, as we said, a study in the creativity of a master. Krishna Reddy worked a revolution in printmaking by discovering this method of printing numerous colors from a single metal plate. Experiments in the possibilities of color printing remained unpredictable until Krishna analyzed the oil contents of inks and effected ways of controlling tha. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: used/very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 245 Page. Illustrations. Heavy Book.

4to. pp. 245. numerous colour illus. biblio. index. wrs. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition. 246 pages with 104 illustrations in color. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Derrick R. Cartwright and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego CA February 23-May 18, 2008. Bibliography. Biographical Timeline and Map.