Jehangir Sabavala (An Old and Rare Book)

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Jehangir Sabavala is a painter with an outstanding individual talent which has taken him on his own path of development, uninterrupted by the varying art fashions of the day. Here is a distinguished painterly mind. exploring a personalized style after years of grappling with the "joint-stock problems of modern art". The cubist discipline of his early years is now submerged under this personal vision which reveals itself in shades of expressionist mysticism, especially in his landscapes.

In his Introduction to Tata McGraw- Hill's monograph on Sabavala The Reasoning Vision: Jehangir Sabavala's Painterly Universe, 1980, poet-critic Dilip Chitre says "In terms of the potential. audience for art in India or anywhere else, he has offered recognizable surfaces. structured them with painterly sophistication, and infused them with serious. deeper meaning. In a very quiet way, he has made his audience sce both the technical values of his craft and the originality of his vision..

And S. V. Vasudev, the well-known art critic has written "There are a few artists who in the course of a generation of the contemporary movement in India, have made an indelible impression on the mind and have also revealed in their progress the nature of the artistic quest.... Today Jehangir Sabavala's paintings reveal the refinement of a poetic mind, the abstract sign posts of a philosophical search for values, the painterly technique realized after years of experience, and, above all, the singular note that keeps alive the wonder in creation."

Trained in English and American Literature (Delhi: New York:) Pria Devi studied 20th Century Art-history under Linda Nochlin, participated in organizing Concept '69, (a group-show of new-school Minimalists, New York, '69); her dissertation, American Avant-Garde: 1952-68, Subsequently she has taught and travelled in India, writing on aspects of art, literature and culture. Involved in Craft/ Textile Design-development and Rural Communications projects for over ten years, she is increasingly concerned with the significance of Indian Studies.

"The Tides of Perfect Joy", her verse translation of Anandalahari appears shortly; "Intensities", her first and Award-winning collection of verse, appeared in 1980.