Yasra Daud Khoker is an Architecture and Art Writer working between Jaipur and Dubai, with a special interest in Art and Architectural History, Theory and Criticism. Sandhya Bord ewekar is an Art Critic and Curator based in Baroda. Sidd hart h Sivak umar is an Independent Writer and Editor-in-Chief of tinpahar.com. Sushma Sabnis is an […]
Month: July 2013
Editorial
This issue of Art and Deal focuses on photography. As a keen reader you may be wondering why we are repeating an issue on photography as we just published an issue on the same subject in July 2013. As we know, nowadays billions of photographs are being uploaded on social networking sites. In such a […]
Cover Story
Art Education: What No One Told You Yasra Daud Khoker The philosophy and art of Shishir Bhatt forms the adumbration of the emblem of self-education. Making art for over 30 years, and having learned through self-enquiry and exploration, he believes that the universe is designed for the learner. With nobody to guide him, Shishir depended […]
Feature
Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University Sandhya Bordewekar This is perhaps the only art institution in the country offering programs leading to Diploma and PG Diploma, Bachelor’s (BVA) and Master’s Degree (MVA), and finally, Ph.Ds in full-fledged departments such as Painting and Mural, Sculpture and Ceramics, Graphics, Applied Arts, Museology, and Art History […]
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Kala Bhavana : A Living Tradition Siddharth Sivakumar It is said that a true universal man is inspired to look beyond his time and space, while being constantly motivated by ground realities and local interests. Managing the seemingly paradoxical was the crucial task set by Tagore, and achieved by Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij and Binodebehari […]
Feature
The J. J. School Of Art Brand Sushma Sabnis The Applied Art department offers the same in Illustration, Typography, Design Display, Computer Graphics and Photography. Applied art offers 100 seats each year, 95 are for the open category and 5 for outside Maharashtra state applicants. Any student who has cleared 12th standard in any stream […]
Abituary
Pran Krishan Sikand In 1973, he recommended Amitabh Bachchan to Prakash Mehra for the character of Vijay in Zanjeer. Pran’s role as Sher Khan, with his red wig, beard and Pathani style was well appreciated. Pran acted with Bachcahn in about 14 films, the notable ones being Zanjeer, Don (1978), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Dostana […]
Essay
The Irony of Art Education and Other Politics (Art Education in Lesser Known Art Schools) H.A.Anil Kumar It was the 3G generation of students who drove those donkeys back to their owner’s place from CAVA, under the guidance of Umesh, who belongs to the generation before the 1G. The theme that must have bothered him […]
International
Andrew Renton, Goldsmiths College: an interview Rajesh Punj A&D: When I consider ‘curating’ as a profession, I am always prone to consider several disciplines collectively, ‘critical writing’, ‘facilitator’, ‘exhibition’s organiser’, ‘administrator’, ‘artist liaison’, ‘promoter’, and ‘creator’. Are these curatorial threads the key elements of curatorial practice in your opinion? Has it always been such? AR: […]
International
Indian Galleries at Art Basel Uma Prakash Due to the prohibitive cost of attending International art fairs, very few Indian galleries participate in art fairs, although, the numbers are increasing every year. However, Art Basel’s thriving market and opportunity for networking, along with the new co-directors of Art Basel, Marc Spiegler and Annette Schönholzer’s trip […]
Cinema
The 100 Crore Fiesta : Are Ideas Invited? Dr. Ayiriddhi Bhattacharjee So far, around twenty films have attained the cult status of being in the 100 crore club. After Ghajini in 2008, another Aamir Khan movie made its way into the club in 2009 – 3 Idiots. Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan followed shortly after […]
Photo Essay
Ajaya kumar Spread throughout Tamilnadu are sculptural images of mythical/ancient characters (traditionally Panchapandavas) that belong to a unique art form worthy of being presented in contemporary mega shows like major Art fairs & the Biennials of our times. However, these art forms represent a different lineage to a certain extent, a broken lineage of folk […]
Report
George Town Unobscured Penang as a regional art centre Waswo X. Waswo A large crowd was also in attendance during the opening talk by Maggie Steber at her exhibition, The Audacity of Beauty. The venue, at George Town’s soon-to-officially-open Camera Museum, was a heritage building, now beautifully renovated and fitted for exhibitions. Documenting a thirty […]
Report
Being Afloat in Kustia Binoy PaUl’s Vashan Art & Deal Correspondent Binoy Paul used plastic and cloth as his artistic media. He started a sort of story using patches of a thinly-threaded towel, locally called gamcha in Bengali, stitched to a plastic frame shaped like a human. He finished the story by setting the plastic […]
Book Review
My Love Affair with Katharine Kuh JohnyML One day Katharine found that a bunch of postal stamps were missing from her work desk. A solo show by a young artist, Charles Sebree, was on at that time in her gallery. Finally, she realised that Sebree was stealing stamps from her desk. He was selling it […]
Review
CHANDIGARH’S NEK CHAND IN LONDON (London) UMA NAIR In the exhibition, the life-sized seated monkeys in reddish concrete are mysteriously thoughtful, like Buddha figures. A large, flat bird figure, its opulent surface made of translucent green glass fragments, testifies to Mr. Chand’s canny decorative instincts. And various human figures – from adult to toddler sized, […]
Review
AN UNLIKELY PAIR (Mumbai) Lina Vincent Sunish The show came about as a result of Jen’s stay in India for a sixmonth residency programme of the Art Foundation of Nordrhein- Westfalen, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai. His work has been largely based on experiments with collage, fusing and mixing varied histories […]
Editorial
The nineteenth century saw the invention of a beautiful device known as the camera obscura. The dictionary explains the meaning: a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture, sometimes shortened to camera. It is one of the most […]
Cover Story
An Inconclusive Autopsy on a Non-existent Corpse Waswo X. Waswo But there are differences of course, and I can dispute my own words. To understand those differences it is good to remember Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession movement he guided in New York though fifty issues of Camera Work magazine. Stieglitz, and his hand-picked grouping of […]
Cover Story
Framing violence, pain and others through the moving images of B.V. Suresh Aparna Roy Baliga Since 2001, B.V. Suresh has started working on videos. His very first work ‘Introspection’ is based on photographic stills from documentaries on the second world war. The contours are blurred, as are the memories, but the images produce fear. His […]
Cover Story
Imaging their Subjectivity : Transsexuals and Photo graphy Siddharth Sivakumar After dealing with trans-sexuality from a diachronic perspective, in her Alice at Frederick’s of Hollywood, Mariette situates trans-sexuality in a synchronic time-frame. The image has captured the three representatives of humanity with a spontaneous click of the camera. Man is represented by the larger-than-life Oscar […]
Essay
How is it! Photography, today? H.A.Anil Kumar As the general belief goes, the alleged claim that negativebased photography is losing its charm and classicism could also be similar to the older generation being dissatisfied with their 3Gs (third generations). Photography, in the digital age, has not been accepted on its ‘own’ premise, yet. This is […]
Essay
‘THE PHOTOS (C)HOPPED BODY’ Digital photography and the politics of desire Bipin Balachandran When everyone becomes a photographer as what is happening nowadays, the amateur/professional distinction becomes blur in photography. Any event can be recorded and circulated publically. This flood of images has disrupted the mystiques of the public and private realms which had been […]
Feature
The CAPTION A probe into the birth and use of text to make meaning of photographs and its revolution in recent times R. Dhanya Probably the easiest to go without captions are landscapes or images of ‘natural beauty’. How often have we seen the Yosemite peaks pasted onto walls without the slightest idea of where […]
Feature
PHOTOGRAPHY….. WHERE TO FOCUS? Dr .Meghali Goswami There is no such thing as true objectivity, of course, in photography or any other medium. By its nature, a photograph is an incomplete and therefore slanted picture of reality; it is a stylized depiction that represents exactly what the photographer wants us to see, and no more. […]
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Enticing Images: Malls as Albums Sushma Sabnis If one travels into a distant future, one might nostalgically look at their then favourite mall structure with some then old actress selling the then used to be lotion-potion for eternal beauty. When one looks at the older photographs of the ‘mall’ family archives, one will be able […]
Cinema
Remembering Rituparno… Dr. Ayiriddhi Bhattacharjee Picking the right actor for a character was his forte as a director. He not only offered great roles to Bollywood actresses ranging from Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee, Kiron Kher, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Monisha Koirala, Preity Zinta, Bipasha Basu to Tollywood stars like Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rupa Ganguli, Mamata […]
Photo Essay
Dilip Banerjee I never thought of photography as a profession when pondering over my carrier options. But capturing the colours of human lives, the decisive moments in black and white without shades of grey is perhaps most rewarding. To me, while photography is an art, a visual narrative, photojournalism is knowledge.
Photo Essay
Shefali Munjal I like to portray the people living on the edge. In the present series I have showed people from the high ranges like Leh and Laddakh. Serenity is a sort of predominant theme in my works though behind these calm portraits one can feel the precariousness of their lives. I try and seek […]
Photo Essay
Pranab Seal As she steps forward a new world awaits her, land of dreams or land of dying hope where camouflaged demons await in gloom, from light to darkness is this right direction
History
A Brief History of ‘Camera, clicks and capture’ Sayan Dey Life, a weekly, immediately hit the stands and many others like Look, See, Photo, Picture, and Click joined the queue. Look went out of business in 1972; Life suspended publication the same year, returned in 1978 as a monthly, and finally, folded as a serial […]
International
RAM SHERGILL Everything Beautiful Rajesh Punj Immediately after the shoot, Shergill walked the half distance from Treacy’s studio to Isabella Blow’s apartment, let in by Blow herself he recalls she was on the telephone with the American Vogue, and she was labouring over the details for a major forth-coming shoot.; ‘the temperature of the bath […]
Review
Life seen as a toy shop on the canvas Art & Deal Correspondent Shukla looks to tell a story with each of his exhibitions. This particular collection of paintings is inspired by the artist’s four year old daughter and her excitement at a toy store. Shukla shares, “ When I look at her childish cravings […]