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"Mirror to the World" | From the master’s menu

Everything unwraps in the idea of layered imagery – as if he drew different effects on sheets and controlled how they all added together in the final images. Designed seamlessly by the photographer and graphic genius Sanjib Sen, this book on Sanjay Bhattacharyya is a catalyst for a conversation even over a cocktail – Uma Nair.

Price:   21000 |  19 Aug 2017 4:50 PM GMT  |  Book Extract

From the master’s menu

These images have been picked from artist Sanjay Bhattacharyya’s coffee table book, Mirror to the World. It is like his biography narrated through paintings and photographs. This book traces history of his works from his student days to the present times. The artist who is especially known for his commanding mastery over watercolours comprises in his book Mirror to the World about 276 artworks – both paintings and photographs. The book, which took more than a year to come together, is divided in four segments featuring the artist’s oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and photography.  

Bhattacharyya’s figurative images are quite close to those in the works of the Dutch realist painters or the French 18th century painters. The book covers Bengal’s art of the late’60s and ‘70s, portraying regional folk art, streets of Kolkata, the decaying state of the city, Kolkata of dilapidated palaces of the 19th century rich, Calcutta of the faded British grandeur painting of lord Krishna, and portraits of politicians.


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