The past century has witnessed fervent debates about dichotomies in Indian art, articulated variously as high and low art, art and craft, and fine and decorative art. The current avatar of such dichotomies is expressed as a divide between metropolitan and traditional art. The former is understood to be that which is displayed and marketed in urban art institutions and associated with individualism; the latter is generally qualified by terms like folk, religious, ritual, rural or tribal, displayed and sold in non-institutional contexts and associated with a collective identity. Despite frequent attempts to resolve the above-mentioned dichotomies, such hierarchies persist. Indian art is currently experiencing a resurgence, which some see mor...
This dissertation examines contemporary art in India between circa 1965 and 1995, focusing especiall...
This research analyses the various models of design development used to find viable contemporary mar...
The twice daily marking of thresholds with ephemeral chalk-powdered design, executed by women, const...
This article argues that the notion of a singular art world will have to give way to that of ‘art wo...
The paper is a brief survey of the historiography of Maithil painting after independence. Tracing th...
Colonial powers, indigenous traditions, and internal ethnic and religious rivalries all contribute t...
Art is often a reflection of culture and is considered to be the repository of a society’s collectiv...
India has long been a focal point of art. From the traditional to the contemporary, India is fast de...
The social advancement in a general public is the substantial or theoretical articulation of the sou...
Abstract Indian art history is hindered by an exclusionist agenda where visual manifestations of cul...
This thesis is an Anthropolgy of Art case study. In the main it is an ethnographic account of partic...
This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geomet...
The objective of this paper is to identify and define the main differences in modern Western and Cla...
Museums are complexinstitutions of integration of cultures; tangibleand intangible traditions exhibi...
Over the past half-century, Naga communities often living in remote hill-top settlements, have faced...
This dissertation examines contemporary art in India between circa 1965 and 1995, focusing especiall...
This research analyses the various models of design development used to find viable contemporary mar...
The twice daily marking of thresholds with ephemeral chalk-powdered design, executed by women, const...
This article argues that the notion of a singular art world will have to give way to that of ‘art wo...
The paper is a brief survey of the historiography of Maithil painting after independence. Tracing th...
Colonial powers, indigenous traditions, and internal ethnic and religious rivalries all contribute t...
Art is often a reflection of culture and is considered to be the repository of a society’s collectiv...
India has long been a focal point of art. From the traditional to the contemporary, India is fast de...
The social advancement in a general public is the substantial or theoretical articulation of the sou...
Abstract Indian art history is hindered by an exclusionist agenda where visual manifestations of cul...
This thesis is an Anthropolgy of Art case study. In the main it is an ethnographic account of partic...
This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geomet...
The objective of this paper is to identify and define the main differences in modern Western and Cla...
Museums are complexinstitutions of integration of cultures; tangibleand intangible traditions exhibi...
Over the past half-century, Naga communities often living in remote hill-top settlements, have faced...
This dissertation examines contemporary art in India between circa 1965 and 1995, focusing especiall...
This research analyses the various models of design development used to find viable contemporary mar...
The twice daily marking of thresholds with ephemeral chalk-powdered design, executed by women, const...