Jyotindra Jain is an Indian art and cultural historian and museologist. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the Director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, Member Secretary and Professor (Cultural Archives), at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, and also Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.. He has published a number of books on Indian folk art, including, Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting, Other Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India and Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World.

He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a Homi Bhabha Fellow and a visiting Professor at the Center for the Study for World Religions, Harvard University, USA., and was awarded the Prince Claus Awards in 1998.

ESSAYS

Line Drawings of Ganga Devi

by Jyotindra Jain

In the traditional Indian art, drawing played a significant role. To examine this role, writer has focused on drawings of Ganga Devi, who was traditional, as well as ‘contemporary’ or ‘modern’. The study, thus provides a fascinating view to look at the continuity of the medium in changing times.

read more

NOTICEBOARD

Review of DAG’s The Babu & The Bazaar by Meera Menezes
Retrospectives on Pablo Picasso and Faith Ringgold at the Musée Picasso by Virginia Whiles
Aziz Hazara and Soumya Sankar Bose at Experimenter, Kolkata by Shan Bhattacharya
Review of Rhizome: Tracing Ecocultural Identities by Neerja Deodhar
Review of The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah by Umara Zainab

RECOMMENDED

The Centre and the Periphery by Jyotindra Jain
Line Drawings of Ganga Devi by Jyotindra Jain
Objects and Their Journeys: In Pursuit of the Provenance of Things by Jyotindra Jain

1

3