The All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society has been bringing out its Journal 'Roopa-Lekha' since 1928. It is the oldest extant art Journal in India and has been published regularly, barring a few unavoidable gaps such as the 2nd World War years.
Its various issues have covered wide-ranging areas of creativity in India through the ages with analysis and critical comment along with a regular book review section dealing with art books published in India and abroad.
This wealth of material-text and illustrations garnered and edited with care has been received well by readers-young students of art as well as scholars and connoisseurs of maturer years.
The Journal was under the scholarly care of the late Dr. M.S. Randhawa since 1958 when he became its Chief Editor. Till the day of his death March 3, 1986 he continued to be its Chief Editor.
In a discussion a couple of months before Dr. Randhawa died, the current editor put the idea to him that an anthology of the Journal's significant writings on different aspects of art in India, over the entire life-span of the Journal, could be put together in a reasonably priced volume for wide - circulation among lovers of art particularly those who do not have access to our twelve-volume hard-cover library set of the Journal. He agreed that this could be a useful service to the art world.
In making this selection care has been taken to include a wide range of themes which have lost none of the invalidity their for contemporary needs of the reader today.
The editor offers his thanks to the Council of the All-India Fine Arts & Crafts Society and its chairman who readily and enthusiastically backed the idea and the concrete proposal when it was put before them. The editor also offers his thanks to the publisher and his talented production team for their skill and speed which made it possible to produce the book in less than three months' time span.
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