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Introduction

The Lalit Kala Akademi was founded by the Government of India on 5th August 1954 by the then Minister for Education, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The first edition of the Lalit Kala Contemporary Journal was published in June 1962.
This illustrated journal features essays and articles on:
* Artists and art personalities
* Current art movements of the time
* Exhibition features and reviews
The journal aims to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas on modern and contemporary art and to help readers, especially in India, to gain a fresh perspective on art, both national and international.

Publication details

Editors
R.K. Bhatnagar
M. Rajaram
A.S. Raman
Monohar Kaul
Ratnottama Sengupta
Betty Saldanha
Santo Datta
Nandita Jaishankar
Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
K.L. Kaul
M. Ramachandran
Rahaab Allana
Preeti Kathuria
Subhra Mazumdar
G. Vinod Kumar
Keshav Malik
S.A. Krishnan
Mala Marwah
Amit Mukhopadhyay
Josef James
Pranabranjan Ray
Publishers
Founders
Government of India
Directors
Shri V Nagdas

Body of Work

Lalit Kala Contemporary

Anand, Mulk Raj (Guest Editor) and S.A. Krishnan (Assistant Editor). Lalit Kala Contemporary, December 1965 | Journal

December 1965 · Journal

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  1. 1964

    1. Mitra, Asok (Essayist). Gaganendranath Tagore. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 6-14. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795549
    2. Kramrisch, Stella (Essayist). Form Elements in the Visual Work of Rabindranath Tagore. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 37-44. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795552
    3. Fabri, Charles (Essayist). Notes Towards a Biography of Amrita Sher-Gil. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 27-36. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795551
    4. Art Chronicle. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 48-53. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795554
    5. Kowshik, Dinkar (Essayist). Book Reviews. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 45-47. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795553
    6. Anand, Mulk Raj (Essayist). The Four Initiators of the Contemporary Experimentalism. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 1-5. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795548
    7. Amrita (Essayist). Jamini Roy. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 2, pp. 15-26. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, December 1964 | Essay | FineArts | 00795550

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