Mainstream art historical writing on Indian art has remained focused on identifying and defining stylistic schools,understanding evolutionary patterns and regional styles as well as understanding iconographic and narrative conventions and structures.These essays question preconceived notions about meaning in representations-artistic and art historical.The emphasis is on the study of specific visual cultures within the dynamics of historical processes.Traditional arts have benn studied from a critical perspective that extricates them from a past that is hermetically sealed off from the present.About The AuthorShivaji K Panikkar teaches at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics,M.S.University of Baroda.He is presently engaged in writing on art developments in Madras since the 1940s.Parul Dave Mukherjee teaches at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics,M.S.University of Baroda.She has done her doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Oriental Studies,University of Oxford.Deeptha Achar teaches at the Department of English,M.S.University of Baroda.She has worked on representations of Africa in popular boys' fiction of the late ninteenth century Britian for her Ph.D dissertation.
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