A digital session will discuss art theory in the Indian context
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Holding a book transports us to a different world. Frayed or new, such worlds gleam with mysteries. And while we cherish reading between the lines, we are often not sufficiently aware of the sensory appendages that help a story reach us. So, what brings a book to life? An online talk hosted by Chennai-based publishing house Tara Books and Elliott Bay Book Company — an independent bookshop in the US — will answer that question. The talk called Publishing as Co-creation will have author Gita Wolf and designer Ragini Siruguri discuss the process of book-making by closely referring to their title, Origins of Art.
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Wolf shares that the session will examine the book title from the lenses of art theory, Pardhan Gond art, and The Origins Project. “The idea to trace the genesis of the Pardhan Gond art form germinated at an exhibition in Tokyo. The Itabashi Museum had put up a Tara retrospective, and Gond had its own room,” Wolf recalls.
In the process of making the book, the publisher notes, Tara’s approach to art in indigenous Indian communities came together. They had long realised that the Western aesthetic concepts of art don’t fit into the realities of creation in the Subcontinent. Pardhan Gond art is condensed and symbolic, and has a narrative quality. The talk will trace its evolution in contemporary forms.
On: March 22, 8.30 am
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