Wherever you are, the first few months of 2021 has seen a continuation of the widespread devastation marked in 2020 by the global escalation of COVID-19 and the subsequent shift of international discourse, geopolitics, and the liveability index. This issue, Quarantine, responds to our new-found conditions and outlines a multiplicity of viewpoints on the topic highlighting the inherent tension, anxiety, and withdrawal marked by this period.
Details BuyTAKE Quarantine: Editor’s Note
Jaipur: A Museum in the Pandemic
Arts from Now On: Some Attempts at Continuance
The New Normal
Trees of Life
Crisis and Creativity
Alain Servais: ‘I Stay Away From Consensus’
A New State of Being: Reading Into the Santiniketan Narrative
Seeking Relative Permanence and Presence in the Transient With ‘Like a Leaf in Autumn’
Remembering Jyotsana Bhatt (1940–2020)
Remembering Anjum Singh (1967–2020)
Remembering Zarina (1937–2020)
Shahenshah Akbar (1928–2020)
Remembering Satish Gujral (1925–2020)
Ebrahim Alkazi (1925–2020)
TAKE Bengal, Part Deux: Introductory Note
Ramkinkar’s Yaksha-Yakshi
Zainul Abedin, Chittaprosad, and Art of Somnath Hore
Prodosh Das Gupta
Sankho Chaudhuri: A Personal Tribute
K. G. Subramanyan: Between the Real and the Imaginary
The Revenge of the Meek: Rabin Mondal’s Art Deals with the Suppurations of a Debilitated Society
City of Verse: Jogen Chowdhury in Conversation with Kunal Ray
Mithu Sen: Unpoetry
Arpita Singh
Sutripti Years: 1965 to 1975
Bedlam Under the Balcony: Wit and Inevitability in Debnath Basu’s Art
M. F. Husain
The Escapists: Their Idyllic Worlds are Salve for the Soul
Discreetly Disjointed: The Mutually Exclusive Strands of Artistic Practices in West Bengal (2000–19)
Experimenting with Art Experience: Ten Years of Experimenter
Then, Later, Now: The Home, the World, and Beyond
Job Charnock’s Tomb, Calcutta, ca. 1695
New Dimensions of Art and Feminism Through an Indian Festival
Satyajit Ray
Charak
China Town
Fly on the Wall
Fragmented Manuscript
Blood Red and Tears
‘Reena Saini Kallat: Blind Spots/Scotoma’
‘The Listening Eye: Retrospective Show of Gopi Gajwani’
Seema Kohli’s ‘A Circle of Our Own’
‘Know...Not this’
Turner and Tipu
Afterglow: Yohohama Triennale 2020
The Art of Naina Dalal: Contemporary Indian Printmaker
Shilpa Gupta: Drawing in the Dark
Framing Bengal: Different Lenses
Celebrating 10 years of TAKE on Art and Gallery Latitude 28
The Indigo Revolt or the nil vidroh was a peasant movement and a subsequent uprising of the indigo farmers against the British indigo planters, originated in a village of Nadia in Bengal in 1859 and was led by the Biswas Brothers. The scar left of the revolt was so deep that not a seed was ever sown in the soil of Bengal after that.
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David Davidar is a pioneer of modern English language publishing in India, who has not only published many of the finest Indian writers in English, but also opened the doors to the publication of literature in other Indian languages in English translation on an industrial scale. What is his relationship with books from Bengal?
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Working with the Jesuit social communication organization Chitrabani in Calcutta, a group of Bengali-leftist photographers aimed at positive social change by photographically documenting the everyday drudgery of the poor and the middle-class Calcuttans from the late-1970s through the early 1990s.
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I’m no longer in Jatra because the Jatra no longer has any use for me. Now I perform two or three shows a year at Sitaramdas Onkarnath Thakur’s ashram, where it is against the custom for women to perform. He has written some good plays. There, I do the direction, supervise the stage, mike, lighting arrangements the setting of the mikes, everyone’s makeup, do my own makeup and then play the main part. I really have to slog. But still, being in the midst of my work makes me happy.
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In Kanchenjunga, moreover, the landscape that is produced is not merely a generic visualscape; rather, it attains autonomy and becomes an integral aspect of the narrative. The film became a yardstick of uses of colour in cinema, as cinematographer Subrata Mitra’s wellknown greyscale was transformed into natural tones, and to a colour palette which explored hues such as Ochre, Siena, Umber, Scarlet, etc.
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Unique, limited editioned and handcrafted affordable artworks by eminent artists exclusively commissioned for TAKE on Art.
Untitled, Paper mache and acrylic paint Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Untitled, 2016
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Table Lamp, Mixed Media Unique Series of 12, 20 inches (lamp shade 7 x 12 inches, stand: 12 x 9 inches), Table Lamp, 2011
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Painted Palettes, Acrylic on palette (MFD board) Series of 10, , Painted Palettes, 2012
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Museum Bhavan, Nine individual ‘museums’ in book form in a handmade box , 3.7 x 5.5 inches , Museum Bhavan, 2017
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Untitled, Etching on copper and carved mahogany wood Edition of 50, 12 x 10 inches, Untitled, 2009
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Stretched Body Series, Watercolour on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Stretched Body Series, 2014
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Tract, Visual book with 100 images, 1200 gsm, natural evolution hard bound Limited Editions of 100, 12 x 17 inches, Tract,
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Untitled, Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled, 2014
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Untitled , Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled , 2014
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Torso, Hand gilded on polyester resin fiber Exclusive Edition of 30, 9 inches, Torso by G. Ravinder Reddy, 2017-2018
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Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What?, Acrylic and decoup acrylic Limited Edition of 50, 11.5 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches, Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What? by Raqs Media Collective, 2013
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The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, Giclee Print, 5.5 x 8 inches each, The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs by Pushpamala N and Clare Arni, 2000-2004
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Single book in metal Editions of 50, 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Shilpa Gupta, 2011
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The Book of Sand – II, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016
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The Book of Sand – I, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016
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Pink elephant in bathtub, Digital print on archival paper Edition of 50, 5 x 7 inches, Pink Anubhav Highres by Manjunath Kamath, 2011
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Matchbox, Digitally printed matchboxes, 15 x 15 inches , Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2018
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Forbidden Stories, Paper Mache and acrylic paint on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2016
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Anti-clock, Mixed media (water colour on hand-made sheet, velvet etc.), Sizes vary, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2011
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