Architecture of Santiniketan: Tagore's Concept of Space - Hardcover

Das, Samit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 938152338X ISBN 13: 9789381523384

Publisher: Niyogi Books, 2013

Synopsis

This book is a search for the clues hidden in Rabindranath Tagore s philosophy and architecture that will link the past with the present.

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About the Author:

Samit Das specialises in painting, photography, interactive artworks and artists' books, and in creating multi-sensory environments through art and architectural installations. He has held solo shows in Delhi, Kolkata, Singapore and London. Samit's research on Santiniketan's architecture started in 1996, for his M.F.A. from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati and post experience programme at Camberwell College of Arts, London, with CWIT (2001-02). This research culminated in the exhibitions 'The Idea of Space and Rabindranath Tagore: A Photographic Exhibition' (Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi) and 'In Search of Frozen Music' (Nature Morte), in 2011. 'The Idea of Space' was also held at Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata and was part of a curated show at the Freies Museum, Berlin, in 2012.

Review:

Rabindranath Tagore is best known as India’s first Nobel Prize–winning poet and hardly known at all as an architect. But if self-taught architects with a lyrically philosophical bent interest you—Heidegger and Wittgenstein were fellow travelers in this rare realm—then this groundbreaking book by Indian artist and Tagore scholar Samit Das will be a highly satisfying read. (Norman Weinstein ArchNewsNow.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 938152338X
• ISBN 13: 9789381523384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180