The Tale of the Talking Face
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
Published:23rd Aug '11
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In "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 equals 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)"
ISBN: 9780857420053
Dimensions: 28mm x 28mm x 1mm
Weight: 737g
48 pages