13-Nov-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 fourth panel discussion of ‘Art Matters’, an evening with Arpita Singh in conversation with Ina Puri, Geeti Sen and Om Thanvi.
Arpita Singh is an Indian artist. She was born in 1937 at Baranagar in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner.
Ina Puri is a writer, biographer, art curator and collector. She is the author of several books, including In Black & White (a biography of Manjit Bawa), Faces of Indian Art (iconic artists seen through the lens of Nemai Ghosh) and Journey with a Hundred Strings (on the music and life of Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma).
Dr Geeti Sen is a cultural historian and author of six major books on Indian art. She was art critic for the Times of India, Mumbai, and for India Today, and assistant editor at Marg, Mumbai. From 1982 to 2006 she was chief editor of publications at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Presently, she is director of the Indian Cultural Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Om Thanvi is a Hindi writer, senior journalist, editor and critic. Thanvi is currently the vice-chancellor of Haridev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication. His most famous work is a book titled Muanjodaro.
The event was organized at the Indian International Centre on 20th of November 2014.