Undeciphered
‘Epigraphica Indica’ pulls the viewer inward, and is a powerful reminder of the complexities of culture, identity, and belonging – and everything we take for granted in this contemporary, virtually driven world.
Read MoreThis issue of TAKE on Art focuses on the production and circulation of printed books, particularly those devoted to the arts of India. A short list of suitable books in any one genre is fraught with the danger of personal subjectivity. With that as a given, my central premise has been on identifying seminal books across a wide gamut of topics that shed new light on the various disciplines of India’s arts.
Details BuyTAKE Books: Editor's Note
Why Books?
The Weight of Time
Rock by Rock
Phaalgun sudi 9 samvat 2078
Chittaprosad, A Retrospective
Botanical Drawings
Cock, Indian Firework Art
Molly Emma Aitken, The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting'
Maps of Delhi
A Manifesto for Impermanence
Deccan Traverses, The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain & Soak, Mumbai in an Estuary
Bhimayana as a Dwelling
Two Books for a Past, Present and a Future
Cartography of Bombay Cinema
Indian Tiles, Architectural Ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India and Pakistan
Subhash Parihar on the Indo-Islamic Architecture of Punjab, India
Mutable, Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947
With Great Truth & Regard, Tapping the Past
Wondrous Love and the Great Mughal Book
TAKE Editions: The Reflection on Critical Art Vocabulary Laced to Economy of the Art Market
For Everyone Archives their Photographs: Dayanita Singh’s Museum Bhavan
A Moving House or a Landscape
Mapping Metamorphosis: A review of Tanmoy Samanta’s ‘The Shape of Home’
Silences and Speaking Out Loud: Varunika Saraf’s ‘Caput Mortuum’
Homeland as a Creative Circuit
Liquid Bodies and Morphing Sites: ‘Adorning Shadows’ by Radhika Khimji
Undeciphered
‘All Canaries Bear Watching’: The Pharmakon of Left Curatorialism?
Immigrants of Culture and Nature
An Ode to Afterlife: A Review of Jayasri Burman’s ‘River of Faith’
A Timeless Line
Beyond the Frame: Exploring Contemporary Textile Art with Uthra Rajgopal
Conversations with the Self and the Moon
20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary
Bangalore’s Lalbagh: A Chronicle of the Garden and the City
Vivan Sundaram is not a Photographer or Why Vivan Sundaram Returns to Photography
Shahidul Alam, The Tide Will Turn
Reconceiving Genre: Art Documents For The Twentfirst Century
Shilpa Gupta: Drawing in the Dark
Interview with Murti Ahuja
Fly on the Wall
Cast
‘Epigraphica Indica’ pulls the viewer inward, and is a powerful reminder of the complexities of culture, identity, and belonging – and everything we take for granted in this contemporary, virtually driven world.
Read MoreKhimji’s work animates a gaze on the body that conforms to, and in tandem, deviates from reductive tropes. Through an exercise in de-sexualisation, the female nude is stripped of its historical weight as the artistic ideal, and re-examined as a body in transit—a revelatory, yet equally opaque script of desires.
Read MoreAt once personal and political, Saraf creates islands and clusters around her works, while speaking up about issues that currently dominate our newspapers, and are in circulation all around us. Literature and criticism is also drawn in, sometimes through quotes accompanying artworks and at other times as references.
Read MoreDespite some exceptions, the show has appeared as the inner urge of a community to be close to the people next door. Subsequently, this perspective of the post-covid art world becomes a hallmark by looking at their foundation and soil. The concept of home itself can be seen as an essential visual metaphor of many works.
Read MoreIn this show it is tempting to ask oneself; what home does Samanta seek? Is it a cocoon? A place to germinate? Or something amorphous, constantly evolving and shape shifting, as explored in a series of ten diptychs, that the show is named after?
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