Pratapaditya pal biography examples
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January 28, 2021
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If the viewers of the show and the readers of this catalog derive pleasure from their contact with the sculptures, it will be due to the instinctive appeal of works of art executed by believers in any humanistic creed. The spiritual inspiration of the nameless sculptors represented here imbues their work with an imposing presence and a contemplative as well as physical vitality. But it is probably those figures in which a deity’s compassion is most lovingly expressed that will generate the greatest enjoyment. And is that not as it should be, since in the final analysis love and compassion are what religion is all about.
Fig. 1 That is how the anonymous collector concluded his brief Preface in the catalogue of the exhibition of a selection of sculptures from the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayan countries of Nepal and Tibet and from the nations of Southeast Asia culled from his collection. The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1977 (fig. 1
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CONFLICTED GENIUS Review of QUEST FOR COOMARASWAMY: A LIFE IN THE ARTS by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal
CONFLICTED GENIUS Review of QUEST FOR COOMARASWAMY: A LIFE IN THE ARTS by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal By Rob Aft, Entertainment business/copyright consultant and former chair of the Southern Asian Art Council at LACMA, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Coomaraswamy with his second wife, Ratan Devi My connection to the arts of India developed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the collection built by Dr. Pal. I eventually became the chair of the Southern Asian Art Council and held the position for four years. During that time, I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Pal, eventually working up the courage to seek his wisdom and scholarship related to pieces in our personal collection. The fact that we are friends has not influenced (much) my opinion of his most recent work which I am proud to add to my already extensive accumulation of the author’s books. Though familiar with Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy the scholar, I knew nothing about Coomaraswamy the man. I worried that I would find the book to be dry and academic and would struggle to tell Dr. Pal what I thought of it without endangering that friendship. You can imagine my relief when I found the book to be accessible, informativ