About The Book
Somnath Hore's (1921-2006) body of work is of a very special pain and torment which may be traced in some measure to the conditions of the epoch he lived in. Hore to be sure, often trafficked in the violence of a depicted scene; spectacles of bestiality, mutilations and horror. But these are overly facile detours, detours that the artist himself judged severely and condemned. His refusal in his work to employ fixed categories, to explain human action both at the individual and social level also arose from his personal experiences- it is a violence of reaction and expression, a scream rent from terror; a residual vision he witnessed. Over six decades as a consummate printmaker, Somnath Hore steadfastly appreciated using limited means to send complex signals. In this sense he was an idealist, attempting to regain freshness, craft and intellect of early modernism, its beliefs and ideals. Somnath Hore took up 'wound' as a motif in his art. He made pictorial and aesthetic sense out of a personal despair and its experience of torn an injured world depicting a kind of social realism. And yet the energy, intensity, romanticism and sensuousness of the way they are pressed together provide a celebratory transcendence of the subject matter.
About The Author
Amit Mukhopadhyay Studied Art Criticism and Art History from Faculty of Fine Arts, M S. University, Vadodara. Junior Research Fellow of the ICHR from 1978-1981. Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla from 1987-1989. Senior Fellow, Department of Culture, Government of India from 2013-2015. Published a book on 'Fragmented Text in 1993. Founder Member of the REALIST Group established in 1987. Curated several exhibitions of Contemporary Art including Edge of the Century in 1999-2000, Worked as Editor of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi looking after the Contemporary publications in English Language, especially the Journal "Lalit Kala Contemporary." Worked as Editor and Curator, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata from 2008-2011. Recent interests are in Critical Theory with specific interests in the works of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Jurgen Habermas of the Frankfurt School. Published an e-hook on Theador W Adorno's Wall Clock', 2021. Developing interests in the works of Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire and Diderot
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