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6th Issue

editor's note

Body and it's performed reality

The resistant corpus, through 'performative utterances' as well as non-verbal actions at multiple experiential levels, often initiates a renewal of the cultural/political paradigms. Conversely, the body that lies prone vis-à-vis the zeitgeist, rarely affords such time-transforming acts which are  Read

writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN
newsscape

Visualizing textual narrative : Illustration Workshop And Exhibition At Goethe-Institute

For most children, the first step into the fantastic, and at times enigmatic world of literature is through the pictures each book carries. Children's books, which are mostly a combination Read

Laila Sharmin wins international award

Kim Jin-ha, head of Art Institute POOM, Seoul, may have taken issues with the display at the 16th Space International Print Biennial after detecting an almost untraceable link to the Read

Postscript

Difference redefined and resilience echoed: The voice that was Azam Khan

The pop icon Mahbubul Haq Khan, a k a Azam Khan, in the vein of the characters depicted in the strain above, lifted from one of his legendary songs, made Read

writes SHAKHAWAT TIPU with DEPART DESK  

A celebration of Indian-ness

We had our own parallel national movement. We were part of the Progressive Artists Group; there were five or six painters in Mumbai and a few in Calcutta [now Kolkata].  Read

The normative and the notional in art : Mohammad Kibria and modern classicism

No matter whether the words normative, notional or classicist are explicatory of condemnation, or tropes to define a trend-setting (in Bangladeshi context) artistic mode, Mohammad Kibria, with his strain of Read

writes GOLAM MORTUJA
Features

Seeking 'lines of flight' in Bangladesh theatre: When narration of the nation is the norm

‘In a world in which the national state is the overwhelming norm' (Anderson 1983: 123), 'the very idea of “nation” is now nestled firmly in virtually all print-languages, and nation-ness is virtually    Read

writes SYED JAMIL AHMED

Radical Departures: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath began to paint at a time when art and nationalism were closely linked in India. Abanindranath, his nephew, was at the height of his fame, though years had elapsed  Read

writes INDRAPRAMIT ROY

The unconscious mind and the flight of appearances: Rabindranath and the romantic principle

At one point in his life, Rabindranath Tagore felt that 'art is a way for the human to attain completeness [of being]'; to buttress this concept with more meat we  Read

writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN

Rabindranath Tagore's Manuscripts

Mexico was home to Octavio Paz for quite a number of years, where he was stationed as the Ambassador. During these years he travelled around Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka Read

writes OCTAVIO PAZ

Rip off / rip open: 19th edition of the National Art Exhibition

In the West, due to the corporate and media boom and the technological innovations, the diversity, scale and the rate of production in the visual culture has thrown it in  Read

Kazi in Nomansland

The essay is all about Pakistani stamps. It seems there were 328 stamps Pakistan issued from 1947 until the 1971 liberation of Bangladesh (or 'breakup of Pakistan,' depending on your perspective). Only one Read

writes NAEEM MOHAIEMEN
encounter

Continuity of stilled moments

Mustafa Zaman (M Z): The 'joie de vivre' which is strongly sensed in your work is not to be found in others. Compared to the other abstract painters in Bangladesh  Read

Locational

The uprising and everything after

Contemporary art in Pakistani context is like the proverbial elephant that was discovered by a bunch of blind men. Each, in order to describe what he experienced, reduced the huge Read

writes QUDDUS MIRZA
Close Look

Shompur Vihar and the varendric settlers

Vipul Sri Mitras' Nalanda inscription 'a singular feast to the eyes of the world' says it all about Shompur Vihar, now Paharpur, built and established by Pal king Dharmapal during 770 AD. Excavations in 1927 of the main temple exposed a copper plate dated 448  Read

writes OMAR KHALID RUMI
Imprint

Making the right noise! : Unpacking Longitude Latitude 4

First off, the bottom-line: Longitude Latitude 4 (LL4), organized by Shehzad Choudhury et al, shall go down in our annals and almanacs, con bravura, as a zeitgeist defining instant. LL4 delineated  Read

writes EBADUR RAHMAN
Exposure

Line of demarcation : returning to Ratan Majumdar

It was pure happenstance that in 1978 'Pleasure of Nudity', an entry by Ratan Majumdar, a ceramic artist turned printmaker, received one of the three awards in the 4th National Art  Read

Singled Out

Post-funeral of anti-form : Dispatches from Vienna Art Fair

The 7th edition of Vienna Art fair, in the first inspection, exudes the air of a genteel trade jamboree. But, I meet Pawel Althamer – the world renowned polish sculptor, pedagogue  Read

writes EBADUR RAHMAN
Navigator

Clashing notes from an ensemble of the Disenfranchised

‘Footnotes and Unorthodox', an exhibition hosted by Dhaka Art Center, echoes the sense of unfinishedness of its title. In this artists-organized exhibition, four young practitioners come together to display works Read

writes GOLAM MORTUJA

Urban development and eco-degradation Art of Ashraful Hasan

Modernization has impacted the Bengali artists in both sides of the border – West Bengal, now a state of India, and Bangladesh, a sovereign country since 1971 – but has resulted in divergent Read

writes SHAKHAWAT TIPU

Persistence of memory sanctified

I was like a peasant in his field attached to the pictorial glebe, as though suspended from a jute rope, as an ox to the harness, although devilishly restive, only Read

writes ROMAIN MAITRA
Panorama

Santaran turns 12

It is rare for an art event to be all-encompassing so that the participating artists get to take free-hand at cotemporary methods and trends; it is even rarer for dialogues  Read

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