"Two Banks of a Sacred River: S.H. Raza's Life in Art" - Ashok Vajpeyi

"Two Banks of a Sacred River:  S.H. Raza's Life in Art" - Ashok Vajpeyi
Date
Tue February 15th 2011, 11:00am
Event Sponsor
Center for South Asia and SACHI, The Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India
Location
Bldg. 200, Room 305, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
(History corner at Serra Street & Lomita Mall)
Speaker:

Ashok Vajpeyi co-authored Passion:  The Life and Work of Raza (New Delhi: Rajkamal Books, 2005), with the artist.  He has also edited A Life in Art (New Delhi: Art Alive Gallery, 2007), which contains articles by prominent art historians, artists, writers, and critics, on the work of Raza.
A Hindi poet, critic, translator, editor, and culture-activist, Vajpeyi is a major cultural figure of India.  Since 2008 he has been Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's national academy of visual arts.  The author of fifteen books of poetry and seven books of criticism in Hindi, three books on art in English, and innumerable articles, he is widely recognized as an outstanding promoter of culture and an innovative institution-builder. He has been award the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Dayawati Kavi Shekhar Samman and the Kabir Samman, and has been decorated by the governments of France and Poland for his cultural contributions, including a translation of the works of four major Polish poets  into Hindi. 
Presented by SACHI, The Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India and The Center for South Asia at Stanford University

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