Coming Full Circle

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In 1910, Ananda Coomaraswamy was concerned for the loss of an Indian understanding and sensibility in industry, and said ‘Swadeshi must be something more than a political weapon. It must be a religious-artistic ideal.’ He took on the nationalist leaders of his time about their lack of any opinion on Indian craft and art. The Traditionalists/Perennialists and the Arts and Crafts subscribers confronted a similar crisis between traditional art, typecasting, religiously motivated art and, in their times, emergent modernisms. There is little point in being a theoretical ostrich, refusing to acknowledge that the reality on the ground is that there are more craftsmen-artists steeped in traditions in India than in middle-class studio practice. Whereas modernism feared the stereotyping of ‘traditional’ in many Asiatic cultures, the Arts and Crafts Movement recognised the rich civilisational histories of Asiatic countries and how, within that superstructure, exist their means and modes of production.

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