Icon Of A Transition – Madan Chitrakar

This book and the author Madan Chitrakar-the author, is a name essentially associated with the contemporary painting of Nepal. But he has also remained a keen observer and a leading writer on art-with a particular bias on the growth and development of modern forms ( in Nepalese painting).
His academic bonafide as a graduate of Applied Art (Bombay, India) and Masters in Art-history (TU Kathmandu) added with a close professional association with his late artist father -Tej Bahadur, have greatly helped him to understand the topical issues and acquire an incredible wealth of information on the historic transformation of ‘Art of Nepal – how an ageold tradition of religious imagery metamorphosed today into a modern representational and experimental Art’.
This book- a concise commentary on various aspects of late artist Tej Bahadur Chitrakar (1898-1971) – one of the most important architects of this epoch-making transition, seeks to proffer the hard facts of the history-that is life and works of the late artist and how it irrefutably defined the emergence of Western idiom in Nepalese painting-thus heralding a new modern era in the Art of Nepal.
Icon Of A Transition – Madan Chitrakar