THE MAGIC OF MAKING ESSAYS ON ART AND CULTURE

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In this collection of essays, written over the last 25 years, veteran artist K.G. Subramanyan expresses his concerns with a wide range of issues-art, aesthetics, visual perception and creativity; the importance of craft practice and its nurturing; the role and future of old traditions and cultural institutions in the contemporary world; the detrimental effects of the Industrial Revolution and high-technology societies; the constant depletion of the environment; our nation's inability to cope with the education and employment of its divergentmultitudes; and the present day scenes in art, education and society. About Author : K.G. SUBRAMANYAN is a veteran artist who has worked with a wide range of media and materials, exhibiting extensively both within and outside the country. A major retrospective of his work was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, in 2003. Contents : Aesthetics and Motivations in Arts and SciencesNew Perspectives in ArtTheory, Text, ContextThe Primal Imperatives: Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between Culture and the CalenderVisual Arts and the Concept of RasaA Matter of PerpectiveThe Art LanguageVisual Arts in India-Future ProspectsArt in a Multi-cultural SettingThe Local and The GlobalWhat Shall We Do with Culture?The Concept of TraditionThe Sence of Tradition in a Non-traditional WorldThe Magic of MakingDo Hands Have a Chance?The study and support of Rural and Tribal Arts and CraftsDiscovering Each OtherGandhi and the Indian Cultural SceneThe Requisites of a RenaissanceA Pressing ChallengeBetween Reality and DreamEducation and ExperienceBetween the Amateur and the ProfessionalThe Uses and Abuses of HistoryThe Search for a Sane World at this Point in TimeRe-reading the Nineteenth CenturyProtecting Our Cultural HeritageOn Bringing Education to CraftsmenAn Illustrator's View Environment IssuesTowards an Ecology of Culture