17-Jul-2014 12:00 AM
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The Raza Foundation through its series ‘Art Matters’ provides a platform for open discussion on such issues. It endeavors not only to release the true essence of art from the clutches of definitive modernist approach in order to grasp myriad ways of extolling art, but also to stir up debate on the changing meanings of social and political theoretical concepts like rights, justice, liberty, citizenship, etc. Well known, renowned scholars and practitioners from all the diverse fields of arts, dance, music, social science, poetry, and so on are invited for this purpose.
Here, we publish the twenty first panel discussion of ‘Art Matters’, titled ‘Indian Plurality: Indian Aesthetics’ featuring Prof. Radha Vallabh Tripathi, Dr. Kavita Singh and Dr. Naman Ahuja.
Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi has been professor of Sanskrit at Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar and Vice Chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and Vice Chancellor of Shri lal Bahadur Shastri Tashtriya Sanskerit Vidyapith. He specializes in Sahityashastra and Natyashastra. He has published 167 books and 207 papers. He has received 36 national and international prestigious awards, including Sahitya Akademi Award and Shankar Puraskar.
Prof. Kavita Singh is Professor of art history and currently serves as the Dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She received her MFA in 1987 from M.S. University, Baroda and her PhD in 1996 from Punjab University. She was appointed to JNU in 2001. Her research interests cover the history of Indian painting, particularly the Mughal and Rajput schools, and the history and politics of museums, with special reference to India. In 2018, she was awarded the Infosys Prize in Humanities for her work in the field of art history and visual culture.
Dr. Naman P. Ahuja is an art historian and curator based in New Delhi. He is Professor of Indian Art and Architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where his research and graduate teaching focus on Indian iconography and sculpture, temple architecture and Sultanate-period painting. He is also the Editor of Marg, India’s leading quarterly magazine and journal on the arts, published from Mumbai. His studies on privately owned objects—terracotta’s, ivories and small finds—have drawn attention to a wide range of ritual cultures and transcultural exchanges at an everyday, quotidian level. He has curated several exhibitions, most notably The Body in Indian Art and Thought, and published books, including The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad.
The event was organised at the Indian International Centre on 24th of July 2014.