Homage to an Art Historian
Nuzhat Kazmi
INDIAN PAINTING by Mahesh Sharma Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 2014, 492 pp., 3950
June 2014, volume 38, No 6

This is a splendid volume that brings to- gether the recent approaches and researches around the theme of Indian Painting in honour of Professor B.N. Goswamy who continues to inspire and motivate potential scholars of art and history in various capacities and contexts. A scholar whose command on language is par excellence and who has never failed to engage us, the we in his audience and readership, with his passion for the poetics and the poetry, which he renders in a meticulous manner, as he talks of the rasas, the sadangas and the ananda of Indian art. Scholars, both young and not so young, have come together to express their debt, of whatever nature, but largely to his innate genius in recognizing talent for research and his skills in nurturing it.

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