The Life-Sketch of Tagore and his Paintings
VIEW EVENT DETAILSIn this presentation, author and curator Sushobhan Adhikary will discuss the legacy of polymath Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize and credited for reshaping Bengali literature, music, and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
About Sushobhan Adhikary
As a theoretician and art historian, Sushobhan Adhikary has written extensively about Indian art—especially works by Rabindranath Tagore—since 1983. His numerous awards and recognitions include the Ananda Puraskar in 1997 for the book Ranger Rabindranath and the Debajyoti Dutta Majumder Memorial Award from the Tagore Research Institute, Kolkata in 2014. On what would have been Tagore’s 150th birthday, Adhikary was invited by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Delhi and the Indian Embassies in Hungary and Sri Lanka to speak in Budapest and Colombo about the artist’s work. Adhikary was born in Krishnagar, West Bengal, India and received his BFA and MFA in painting from Kala Bhavana, the fine arts faculty of Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan. Sushobhan currently lives and works in Santiniketan.
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