Creating the Sensibility of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Santiniketan & the Arts and Crafts Movement

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In the history of modernism in India there is a neglect of the role of Arts and Crafts and, paradoxically, even in the international arena there is almost an omission of the modern histories of the legatees of the Arts and Crafts Movement’s pioneers in India. ‘Culture’, ‘craft’, ‘artisan’ and ‘village industry’ had been catch-words since the 1851 Great Exhibition, through the Arts and Crafts Movement and even through the arguments on fashioning the art schools of India. Devi Prasad was born on October 8, 1921, a second son to Ramanand Bajaj and Ramkali Ramanand in Dehra Dun. The craftsmanship debate and historiography generated by William Morris was well in place in England which was also the year when Coomaraswamy’s monograph on The Indian Craftsman was published. The Santiniketan exposure to different artistic languages sees a proficiency develop which is so sophisticated that Devi can just about craft anything in any style.

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