19 Jul One, Two Tree!
Count the improbable number of animals on an an ever-expanding tree…
19 Jul Water
A Gond tribal fable about water...and on the human relationship to this most primeval of elements.
19 Jul I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Design mirrors the shifting ways in which poetry creates meaning: 16th century English trick verse, Gond tribal art.
19 Jul Sultana’s Dream
Early 20th century feminist utopia – classic text illustrated by contemporary woman artist from the Gond tribe.
19 Jul The London Jungle Book
Visual travelogue from a Gond tribal artist reverses the anthropological gaze.
19 Jul Creation
Visual narrative brings together stories of origins, transformations and endings from the Gond tribe.
19 Jul The Night Life of Trees
A cosmic vision of trees: exquisite art and folklore from the Gond tradition of central India.
13 Mar Why Curate When You Can Publish?
By V. GeethaFor over twenty years now, we have curated exhibitions to do with our books and publishing. Some of these have focused on individual titles, others on our book-making, and yet others on broad themes that define our intertwined publishing concerns — to do with content, form and printing. As we worked on Painting Everything in the World, we pondered over these other exhibitions. What, we asked ourselves, is the relationship between curation and publishing?
24 Aug How A Potter’s Tale Took Shape
By V. GeethaOf the many titles that we have published over this quarter century, books featuring tribal and folk art outnumber all others. The artists that we have worked with come from different traditions, spread across the country, but there are almost none from southern India. Seeing Ramu Velar at work, we realised that this part of India might not have living traditions of art, but there were artisanal traditions that could furnish visual content for illustrated books.