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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

Appasamy, Jaya (Editor) and S.A. Krishnan (Assistant Editor, design and layout). Lalit Kala Contemporary, September 1967-April 1968 | Journal

September 1967-April 1968 · Journal

13 results

  1. 1967

    1. Anand, Mulk Raj (Essayist). The Artist as Hero. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795603
    2. Jones, Helen Lee (Essayist). Modern and Contemporary Painting in the United States. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 7-11. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795604
    3. Schierbeek, Bert (Essayist). The Experimentalists from the Netherlands. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 41-50. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795610
    4. Lazzaro, G. Di San (Essayist). Two Letters. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 12-14. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795605
    5. Bice, Clare (Essayist). Canadian Art and Artists. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 51-54. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795611
    6. Krishnan, S.A. (Essayist). Figurative and Abstract Art - A Symposium . In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 24-37. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795608
    7. Fabri, Charles (Essayist). Art Chronicle. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 64-70. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795615
    8. Pereira, I. Rice (Essayist). Two Poems. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 57-60. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795613
    9. Appasamy, Jaya (Essayist). Indian Art Since Independence - Figurative to Abstract and Beyond. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 15-18. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795606
    10. Janin, Louise (Essayist). Art is One. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 19-23. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795607
    11. Welling, Dolf (Essayist). Autonomy Achieved. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 55-56. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795612
    12. Staber, Margit (Essayist). Pictorial Movement by Pictorial Order. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 38-40. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795609
    13. Read, Herbert (Essayist). Developments in the Arts. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 7 & 8, pp. 61-63. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, September 1967-April 1968 | Essay | FineArts | 00795614

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