Worth a read. In a similar vein Hindus and other should consider putting out thoughts on shall we say "The Meaning and Greatness of Hindu Art (leading into contemporaneity), art from a Hindu awareness, or plan INDIAN art."
I am at least 15 years away from writing from/for the Hindu side; ie., of course, if no one else does (it is very difficult needless to say), or my interests change change even further, and if I do not completely move into oblivion. Part of it is also that I am not a scholar, in the way I understand that form of knowing, and do not wish even a quarter-baked scholar to attempt to go after me. There are better things to do with ones time. One need more methodology to include of course the qualitative. But I trust that the progeny of the mahants, our erudite litterateurs both Hindus and Christians, also of assorted high-profile businessman and scholars will rectify the paucity of expressive texts connecting the visual to the spiritual, to the existential, and to lived aesthetics. Read John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," and also Ben Shahn's The Shape of Content, as eloquent texts in forming understanding. ++++++++++++ The Meaning and Greatness of Christian Art © 1993 by R.J. Rushdoony Art is the making well, or properly arranging, of anything whatever that needs to be arranged http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/rr-great-art.html ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto * * * Was life in the *kudds* glamourised? Who said, "It appears that the Goanese (sic) are a roving people, prepared to go to any part of the world for well-paid employment"? How did Goans find their first toehold in the Gulf? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
