1st Edition
The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad
By Naman Ahuja
Copyright 2011
324 Pages
by
Routledge India
324 Pages
by
Routledge India
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The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter, painter and photographer Devi Prasad. Apart from the making of his personal history and his times, it leads us to why the act of making (art) itself takes on such a fundamental philosophical significance in his life. This, the author explains, derives directly... Read more
1. On the Exhibition's design 2. Creating the Sensibility of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Santiniketan and the Arts and Crafts Movement 3. Making a Gandhian Utopia: Art, Design and Pedagogy at Sevagram 4. With an Essay: A Theory of Education for Peace Krishna Kumar 5. A Peaceful World is a Creative World: England and the War Resisters' International 6. With an Essay: A Pacifist Experiment: Devi Prasad's Years with WRI in London Bob Overy 7. Coming Full Circle. Appendices: Select Writings of Devi Prasad: On Art the Basis of Education, On a New Society, On Tagore's Philosophy of Education, On Tagore and Education, On Gandhi's Satyagraha, On Child Education, On Child Art, On Peace Education, On War Resistance, On the Indian Potter, On Peace, Education and Creativity. A Bibliography of Devi Prasad's Writings. Select Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Naman P. Ahuja is Associate Professor of Indian Art and Architecture, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
