A Critic's Eye Moving Focus India

A Critic's Eye Moving Focus IndiaAbout the author Richard Bartholomew escaped from Burma around the time of the Japanese invasion during the Second World War and made New Delhi his home. Here, he earned his Bachelors and Masters degree in English Literature after which he began his career as a full time art critic writing for various newspapers, journals and magazines. His creative writing includes poems and short stories which were published frequently in journals like Thought and

quietly patient dramatic structures and visionary symbolism

and represent them

creating a fluid sense of motion within a rigid structure

’ Exploring this mystery

To redress this lacuna

their enforcers

and Whitechapel Gallery

Ideas that never saw the light of the day are richly illustrated with archival drawings

Pascal Quignard looks closely at this delicate interplay of celebration and terror

this book focuses on contemporary Indian cultural institutions

From long-lost paintings to ephemeral sculptures

He writes movingly of his family