Indian Painting a Romance (An Old and Rare Book)

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A unique study of Indian painting - deep rooted in tradition and philosophy, and seeped in emotions: beginning from the cave painters to the pulsating and dynamic art of today. The text is further enhanced by coloured illustrations and multi-linear drawings. Although the grave, sensuous and infinitely varied arts of India have long been admired - but until now there has been no attempt to elucidate the fact that modern Indian artists have their roots firmly planted in Indian history and culture. They have a linkage with the past, which is our Heritage e.g., the Ajanta caves. Modern Indian artists' works are not mere mushroom growth. As such this art can claim to be a vital influence in shaping the art of the future.

Usha Prasad was born in New Delhi. She had her early training under E. Kumaril Swamy and Shantanu Ukil at Sarada Ukil School of Art, New Delhi. She later completed her M.A. in Fine Art and Education from Columbia University, New York. As a painter her water colour paintings have been success fully exhibited in New York, Bangkok, Bombay and Kingston (Jamaica, West Indies). As a lecturer in Art and Craft she has worked at Mico Teachers Training College, Kingston. The love for research oriented articles has carried her publications in the leading news papers, magazines and art journals in India; while the Daily Gleaner, Daily News and the Jamaican Journal have published her views on art in Kingston. At present she is teaching a course on Art, design and society' at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Mrs. Usha Prasad, herself an artist and connoisseur of art, has given her valuable appraisal of Indian art, its early traditions, its continuity during the several centuries of growth and efflorescence, and the meaning of its present phase, which has a rare sensitivity and vitality born of its own inherent great aesthetic quality and its link with the past that cannot be altogether denied. Her treatment is delicate and sensitive as is to be expected from the pen of an artist, connoisseur ship most pleasing and objective, a rare quality in one herself an artist evaluating the achievements of a galaxy of distinguished colleagues in Modern art The book offers pleasant reading, provokes thought and gives a sense of satisfaction after completion of its perusal.

I am sure this book will be welcomed and read by all lovers of Indian art.

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