What is the Place of the Artist in Society?

Transcript of Vivan Sundaram's presentation delivered for the seminar titled 'Art Values: And How to Make These Effective Through Presentation, Promotion and Preservation' at Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, on 14 and 15 March 1975.

The paper is about the the social position of Indian artists and their relationship to the art market. It also proposes ways in which artists and institutions could promote art effectively.

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The seminar titled 'Art Values: And How to Make These Effective through Presentation, Promotion and Preservation', which held at Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, on 14 and 15 March 1975, was part of the 4th Triennial and was co-convened by K.G. Subramanyan and Richard Bartholomew. The invited participants included Vivan Sundaram, Pranabranjan Ray, L.P. Sihare, Geeta Kapur, Nissim Ezekiel, Josef James, Adi Davierwalla, Ram Kumar, Suhash Nimbalkar, Prafulla Mohanti, Dinkar Kowshik, Keshav Malik, Virendra Kumar, R. Chatterji, and V.R. Amberkar.

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What is the Place of the Artist in Society? If Art is Important to Society What Should be Done (i) to Promote Art Effectively; (ii) to Ensure that it is Considered a Significant Expression of the Age, Place and Time; (iii) to Make the Public Concerned with and Involved in the Preservation of Works of Art

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English

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1975

Creation place

India

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What is the Place of the Artist in Society?