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Ramkinkar Vaij - Sculptures (Hardcover)
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Ramkinkar Vaij - Sculptures (Hardcover)
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Ramkinkar Vaij (1906-1980), a significant artist of twentieth
century India, is regarded as the first major figure in modern
Indian sculpture. Born into a poor family in Bankura district,
Bengal, he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan, at the
university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, at the age of 19. Having
made his home and found his creative metier there - as a student
first and a teacher later - he was one of the pioneering trio of
artists, along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee, who
made Santiniketan the most important center for art in India
between 1920 and 1947. Ramkinkar, as he was popularly known, was a
man who had enormous gifts but never aired them; an artist who was
single-minded in his pursuit of work but treated the results with
philosophic unconcern. Indifferent to success, fame and money, he
lived an unworldly and capricious life. His works reflect a great
zest for the gifts of nature and deep concern for the conditions of
poor and laboring people. The subject of this book is Ramkinkar's
sculptures as seen through the photographic lens of Devi Prasad,
supplemented by discussions on the artist's life and work in his
own words and through the eyes of his students, friends and
associates. Devi Prasad, who was a student at Kala Bhavan during
1938-44, went back to Santiniketan as a Visiting Professor in the
year 1978. During his stay there, he undertook a photographic study
of 60-odd sculptures of Ramkinkar. Towards the end of that year,
during the seventh Pous celebrations, he exhibited nearly 150 of
these photographs in three halls of Kala Bhavan. Ramkinkar himself,
though in poor health by then, inaugurated the exhibition; he was
deeply moved to see such a large photographic representation of his
works.This book on Ramkinkar's sculptures by Devi Prasad is
published as a tribute, to mark the artist's birth centenary year.
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