Kapila Vatsyayan: A Tireless Promoter Of Arts
With an insurmountable amount of research in the fields of arts, culture and civilisation to her credit, Kapila Vatsyayan epitomised being a "scholar" like no one else.
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With an insurmountable amount of research in the fields of arts, culture and civilisation to her credit, Kapila Vatsyayan epitomised being a "scholar" like no one else.
Kapila Vatsyayan: The Visionary Who Defined Indian Aesthetic Theory Kapila Vatsyayanâs vision was driven by a necessity to develop a terminology to be able to examine Indian art in its own art history. Kapila Vatsyayan (1928-2020). Photo: Bharat Tiwari In 2011, I was commissioned to curate an exhibition on ‘The Body in Indian Art and Thought’. The show was put on the road in 2013 with a grand opening by the president of India and the king of the Belgians at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Only five years earlier, however, the very same venue had hosted another exhibition of In...