Life of a modernist rooted in tradition - The Hindu BusinessLine
Signature image: Badri Narayan drew inspiration from myths and allegories - BHAGYA PRAKASH× A book on Badri Narayan is a tribute — albeit a belated one — to an artist who did not enjoy the recognition he truly deserved * Narayan did hark back to the past but his works were, nonetheless, grounded in the 20th century * For the storyteller that Narayan was, Indian miniatures, Ajanta frescoes, other Oriental aesthetic legacies mattered as much as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and William Blake * Author Prema Viswanathan has, with admirable tenacity and acuity, dug up the biographical det...
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