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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

33 results

  1. 1995

    1. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Souza's Exhibition. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, p. 31. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795987
    2. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Art, Modern or Contemporary ?. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 15-16. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795978
    3. Kapur, Geeta (Essayist). J. Swaminathan - The Artist the Ideologue the Man his Persona. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 61-62. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796002
    4. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Pre-Naturalistic Art and Post Naturalistic Vision - An Approach to the Appreciation of Tribal Art. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 50-57. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796000
    5. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Trends in Modern Indian Art. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 38-40. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795993
    6. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Revival and Decline in Bengal. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 34-35. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795990
    7. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Submerged Archipelago. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 57-59. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796001
    8. Vajpeyi, Ashok (Essayist). Swaminathan. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 63-67. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796003
    9. Dev, Anand (Essayist). Walking Alongwith Swami. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 71-75. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796005
    10. Goel, K.B. (Essayist). The Other. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 79-82. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796007
    11. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Painter with Blow-Flame. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 28-29. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795985
    12. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). The New Promise. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 18-20. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795980
    13. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Husain's Sculptures. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, p. 41. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795995
    14. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Ram Kumar - A New Stage. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 42-43. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795996
    15. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Recent Shows. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 27-28. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795984
    16. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Modern Indian Art - The Visible and the Possible. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 47-49. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795999
    17. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). The Paintings of Hyder Raza. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 35-36. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795991
    18. Goel, K.B. (Essayist). J. Swaminathan - His Art and Context. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 68-70. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796004
    19. Goel, K.B. (Essayist). The Self. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 76-78. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796006
    20. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Trends in Modern Indian Art, 1959 - Niether Here nor There. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 36-37. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795992
    21. Group 1890 Manifesto. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 83-84. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00796008
    22. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). The Cube and the Rectangle. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 21-22. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795982
    23. Kapur, Geeta (Essayist). Reaching Out to the Part. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, p. 17. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795979
    24. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). The Tagores' Exhibition. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 40-41. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795994
    25. Mukhopadhyay, Amit (Essayist). Editorial. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 4-5. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795976
    26. Patel, Gieve (Interviewer). An Interview with J. Swaminathan. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 23-25. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795983
    27. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Homage to Sailoz. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, p. 32. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795988
    28. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Ideology and Art. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 44-45. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795998
    29. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Birth of a Movement. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 29-30. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795986
    30. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). The Cygan - An Auto-Bio Note. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 6-13. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795977
    31. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Indian Paintings in the U.S.. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 33-34. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795989
    32. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Colour Geometry - Catalogue of Eexhibition, 1967. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, p. 21. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795981
    33. Swaminathan, J. (Essayist). Bombay Group Show. In Lalit Kala Contemporary. 40, pp. 43-44. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, March 1995 | Essay | FineArts | 00795997

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