The age of exploration was one in which a confident and wealthy Europe was ready to look at the world in different ways. By this time, the emerging European imagination could see the world as an imagined or designative concept. Textiles brought the colours of the other lands, and its mass printing and production brought a sense of fantasy and playfulness into European homes. Continuing Traditions follows the reflections on inter-relationships between textiles, trade and non-performing visual arts in India. The volume has been brought out in conjunction with a travelling exhibition in India called Safar-nama: Journeys through a Kalamkari Hanging , an exhibition of digital prints of an ancient painted fabric piece in the kalamkari tradition, which prevailed in the Coromandel Coast, and is now housed at the Museum of Printed Textiles of Mulhouse in France, along with 'Continuing Traditions', a show of contemporary artists and designers whose works can relate to it. After a long modernist interregnum in which the sole objective was to create a thing-in-itself, these works emerge as a postmodernist re-assertion of interrelationship between worldly phenomenon. Published in association with Akar Prakar. Contents: Foreword; Curatorial Note by Esclarmonde Monteil, Curator and Director of Museum; World Within Worlds: by Surajit Sarkar; Intertwining Inheritance and Practice: by Pranabranjan Ray ARTISTS: Aditya Basak; Anju Dodiya; Archana Hande; G.R Iranna; Jayashree Chakravarty; Paula Sengupta; Shrabani Roy; Surajit Sarkar; Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Designer).

Continuing Traditions

Arts & Photography

Ray, Pranabranjan

Sarkar, Surajit

Decorative Arts & Design

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

This volume brings together essays by artists and scholars as well as excerpts from Meera Mukherjee's diaries and letters to offer an understanding of her art. Choosing bronze as her favourite medium, Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998) formed her own simplistic, modernist, life-like world of sculptures. They possess a 'lifeforce' that speaks to the ordinary being instead of alienating them. Mukherjee's commitment to her practice made her valiant enough to step out of her comfort zone and dedicate herself to visual arts. Her devotion to the craft traditions of India guided her to Madhya Pradesh, Bengal and South India. The artist's language is similar to that of the quotidian life in her immediate surroundings, shedding light upon social issues. This one of a kind volume offers an understanding of Mukherjee's art through the most comprehensive collection of essays by writers who have known her personally and professionally, as well as from translated texts and excerpts from her diary and letters. AUTHOR: Dr. Geeti Sen, a cultural historian and author, is the former Director of the Indian Cultural Centre in Nepal. 146 illustrations and 26 photographs

Meera Mukherjee: Purity of Vision

Sen, Geeti

Dutta, Adip

Ghosh, Nandini

Lechner, Georg

Chatterjee, Maitreyi

Segieth, Clelia

Pracht, Shilvanti

von Rosenbladt, Maja

Individual Artists

Ganesh Pyne was one of the foremost exponents of the Bengal School of Art. This publication brings together several of his key artworks to trace his artistic evolution. Ganesh Pyne (1937-2013) traced his early influences to his grandmother's folk tales and Abanindranath Tagore's stories and illustrations for children. The gruesome violence which attended the Partition of India, including The Great Calcutta Killing of 1946, left a permanent effect on Pyne's creative personality, revealing itself in the premonitions of death and destruction visible on his canvas. Pyne was a multi-faceted artist, always honing his skill in standardised art practice as well as adapting technology for his personal idiom. He dabbled in animation and print media, not just to make a living but also to widen his horizon of the visual study of art. This illustrated volume presents a rich, expansive study of Pyne's creative career, including previously unseen work made while the artist was a young man. Through sensitive essays, the author also brings to the fore the shy reticence of the artist himself, who nevertheless took a great interest in Calcutta's artistic milieu, becoming a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists. This volume hopes to reveal the intensity of Pyne's engagement with the world around him and his urgent voice capturing the apprehensions and ideals of a country on the brink of both disaster and freedom. AUTHOR: Pranabranjan Ray has worked as a social scientist for the Government of West Bengal. He has been a founding member and the secretary of the Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta, for 25 years. Ray has curated a number of exhibitions and is the author of several books, including Continuing Traditions (Mapin, 2015), which he co-authored with Surajit Sarkar. 96 illustrations

Ganesh Pyne: A Painter of Eloquent Solitude

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