Faces Of Indian Art : Through The Lense Of Nemai Ghosh

Geeti Sen was until recently the Chief Editor of Publications at the India International Centre, New Delhi, an appointment held for twenty years. Trained as an art historian at the Universities of Chicago and Kolkata, she was Art Critic for the The Times of India in Mumbai and for India Today in Delhi and Assistant Editor of Marg, the prestigious art journal in Mumbai.She has lectured at six national institutions in India and has been invited to lecture in Egypt, France, Greece, Spain, Russia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Sen's major books include Paintings from the Akbar Nama, 1985, Image and Imagination, Five Contemporary Artists in India, 1996; Bindu: Space and Time in Raza's Vision, 1997; Ganesh Pyne:Revelations, 2000; and Feminine Fables: Imaging the Indian Woman, 2002. Keshav Malik is the former editor of Thought, Indian Literature, Art and Poetry and poetry editor of Youth Times. He also edited the Poetry Bulletin of the Poetry Society (India) of which he was the first President. He has published a volume of his prose writings, eighteen volumes of poetry, edited five anthologies of Indian poetry in translation into English, one of short stories in translation into French, Spanish and Arabic. He was consecutively the art critic for the Hindustan Times and the Times of India, New Delhi, from 1960 to 2002. He has authored six monographs on different Indian artists published by the Lalit Kala Akademi, and the Andra Pradesh Arts Akademi. He served on the Executive Board of the Lalit Kala Akademi, as honorary editor of its journal, The Contemporary and was nominated to the body as an eminent art critic. R. Siva Kumar is professor of art history, Viswabharati University, Santiniketan. He has written extensively on modern Indian art and is best known for his research and publications on artists associated with Santiniketan. His publications include 'The Santiniketan Murals', 'Santiniketan: the Making of a Contextual Modernism', 'K. G. Subramanyan: A Retrospective' and 'A. Ramachandran Retrospective'. He has also curated a number of important exhibitions for the National Gallery of Modern Art, and co-curated Tryst With Destiny, an exhibition of post-independence Indian art for the Singapore Art Museum. Samir Dasgupta was an economist and a joumalist for over three decades, apart from dabbling in a variety of other interests. But it was his obsession with the arts that dominated his focus for many years, and the many hours spent with and around artists have found expression in his incisive analyses of contemporary Indian art. Dasgupta had even tried his hand at painting despite never having trained himself because, as he explained, he needed to understand the process. After teaching in various universities in US, Canada and India, he joined Amrita Bazar Patrika published from Kolkata as .. Editor. After retiring from the newspaper, he became the Art Critic of The Telegraph, Kolkata.