The Tale of the Talking Face

ISBN-13: 9780857420053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 48 str.

K. G. Subramanyan

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n "The Tale of the Talking Face," eminent Indian artist K. G. Subramanyan offers a stinging parable of democracy gone wrong by narrating and illustrating the story of a princess whose autocratic rule brought nothing but suffering to her people, despite her ambition of progress for her country. A thinly veiled satire on the political drama of 1970s India, "The Tale""of the Talking Face "is a universal record of the ever-deepening crisis of democracy and the threat of totalitarianism. Subramanyan s] art is radical in content, open in its approach to style and aesthetic ideas, meeting the proponents of style and craftsmen as equal and reflecting a high standard of artistic skills of different kinds. Cowed down neither by the figurative and non-figurative debate, nor loyalty to a school, which would restrain his originality, he is the quintessential Indian contemporary artist. Suneet Chopra, "Frontline" Subramanyan has] come to be identified with the play of wit and satire, and with a phantasmagoric theatre of surfaces. Nancy Adajania, "Hindu""