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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

9 results

  1. 2011

    1. Sharma, Sudhakar (Essayist). Foreward. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 5-6. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796233
    2. Guha, Sudeshna (Essayist). Visual Histories, Photography and Archaeological Knowledge. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 29-40. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796236
    3. In the Theatre of Memory - The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 85-95. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796241
    4. Roy, Joyoti (Essayist). Extending Theatre Practice - Visuality in the Photographs of Street Theatre. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 56-65. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796238
    5. Narain, Suryanandini (Essayist). City Obscura - The Camera Tours the City. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 66-74. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796239
    6. Allana, Rahaab (Essayist). Introduction. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 7-15. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796234
    7. Tankha, Akshaya (Essayist). Reappraisals - From the Colonial Crchive. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 41-55. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796237
    8. Allana, Rahaab (Essayist). Desires Wrought Upon the Surface of an Image. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 16-28. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796235
    9. Madani, Adnan (Essayist). Bani Abidi and the Politics of Ttheatricality. In Lalit Kala Contemporary - Special Issue on Photography. 52, pp. 75-84. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2011 | Essay | FineArts | 00796240

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