Author Biography
R Sivakumar, one of the foremost art historians in India, is professor in History of Art at Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has been responsible for charting out a seminal scholarship on the modernist interventions of artists from Santiniketan. His significant contribution to Indian art was heralded with his monograph Santiniketan: The Making of A contextual Modernism (1997), which was followed by extensive studies and curatorial manuscripts on prominent Indian artists including Rabindranath Tagore, K.G. Subramanyan, Benodebehari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baij and others.
