Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
by N.C Bhattacharya Published in Roop Lekha, volume 28, no. 1-2, March, 1958, pp. 66-74
The emergence of Rabindranath Tagore as a painter in the early’ thirties was destined to be a great event in the history of Indian painting. In this country, however, this fact was not immediately recognized. On the
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by Patrick Hogan Published in Journal of South Asian Studies, 35:1, 2012, pp. 48-72
Perhaps the most fundamental conceptual division in the study of verbal narrative is that between discourse and story. Though initially formulated for narrative fiction, the distinction applies more broadly. Story is what
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by Prithwish Neogy The bursting of all bonds into the freedom of a luminous ideal vitality was a powerfully felt theme in the early poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. A nonconformist all his life, the poet never repudiated nor ignored the given ambient of his artistic non-age. He progressively transmuted, through unrelenting
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by Benode Behari Mukherjee Many people wonder how the poet Rabindranath produced numerous paintings towards the end of his life, although he had never learnt the art. The story of his painting need not, however, be considered mysterious, in this respect.
If we mark carefully enough, we may see that there is an affinity in
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