[Reader-list] "The Norman Rockwell of South India" - a new visual essay

[Tasveer Ghar]

Dear friends of Tasveer Ghar,

Greetings on the Independence Day of India.

We are pleased to announce a new visual essay about a popular south
Indian artist K. Madhavan, by Stephen Inglis:

"The Norman Rockwell of South India": Multiformity and Repute in the
Work of a 20th century Artist

http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/119/

Although the American artist Norman Rockwell visited India in 1962, he
probably never imagined he had a counterpart in this country. If the
influences of popular culture had been more evenly distributed
globally in the 20th century, Norman Rockwell might have been known as
“the K. Madhavan of Middle America”.

The author, Dr. Stephen Inglis, who has spent much time tracing
Madhavan’s art in south India, is an anthropologist and art historian
who specialises in the artistic traditions of India. Inglis was for
over 25 years a curator and Director-General of Research and
Collections at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Stephen Inglis earlier also wrote a shorter visual essay at Tasveer
Ghar on the Pongal greeting cards painted by K. Madhavan:

http://www.tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/53/

Hope you are enjoying the rest of the features and visual essays of
Tasveer Ghar.

Looking forward to your support.

The Tasveer Ghar team


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