National Multidisciplinary Seminar 2010-Artists/Scholars-IIT Kharagpur
2010 National Multidisciplinary Seminar on “Indian Aesthetics: Convergences and Divergences” organized by Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning , Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
The seminar aims to explore how the different aspects of Indian art tradition have been influenced by one another, have drawn inspiration from other traditions or have influenced them. It also wishes to look at how contemporary practitioners of various art forms including visual arts, plastic arts, music, performing arts and folk arts draw inspiration from tradition and innovate. It wishes to both explore points of convergences as well points of departures, deviations and divergences, and wishes to do this by a unique combination of theory and practice. Thus, it would include (a) Scholarly papers in the above area and (b) Presentationse/exhibitions of various kinds of arts by artists.
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