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Anantdeep Grewal, Panjab University, IndiaAbstract
Art criticism shapes how art is understood, appreciated, and discussed. It provides a framework for analyzing and interpreting artworks, contributing to the cultural and intellectual discourse surrounding art. The development of art criticism in India has a long and layered history, reflecting the country's rich and diverse artistic traditions. However, Art Criticism as a genre in India is generally believed to have begun with the writings on art undertaken during the colonial period. Europeans started to study Indian art and architecture, according to their understanding, in a more systematic manner than had been attempted in previously written accounts. They also wrote about Indian art, architecture, and crafts in European languages, making information available to their readers in the Western world. This paper attempts to study European writers’ contribution to the development of art criticism in India, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A brief analysis of writings of art critics and writers like Birdwood, Kipling, Brown, Havell, Coomaraswamy, Sister Nivedita, Hollebeque, and Fabri, among many others, will also be incorporated as they played a seminal role in shaping art criticism in India during the period. The aim is to recognize various elements that these writers induced through their works that shaped art criticism in India.
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Conference: PCAH2025Stream: Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism
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Grewal A. (2025) Shaping Art Criticism in India: Seminal Role of European Art Critics on the Development of Art Criticism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century ISSN: 2758-0970 The Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 151-158) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0970.2025.13
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