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The Dialogues Series provies sharply etched portraits of the artists and critically engaged accounts of their work. It sees each artist\u2019s journey in review, with its distinctive transitions, breakthroughs and evolutionary rhythms. The Dialogues Series also situates the imagination and lifeworld of the artists within larger art-historical genealogies, cultural narratives and political discussions, both Indian and global. The Series aims to create a discursive space in which both enthusuasts and scholars can reflect on the arguments that art and criticism conduct with history. The series is founded on the belief that the history of art does not simply revolve around the personalities of individual artists or the trends of the day; it also records the vital historical and pholosophical questions that are posed and played out on the contested terrain of art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Manu Parekh<\/strong> (born Ahmedabad, 1939) took a Diploma in Drawing and Painting at the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy School of Art in 1962.<br \/>\nWhile at the J. J., he began to act on the stage, under the Gujarati theatre director, Tarak Mehta. Having earned his diploma, Parekh returned to Ahmedabad and dedicated himself both to painting and the theatre, acting under the direction of Jaswant Thakore and Jaishankar &#8216;Sundari&#8217;. He designed the sets for two Tagore plays, &#8216;<em>Mukta Dhara&#8217;<\/em> and <em>&#8216;Chitrangada&#8217;<\/em>, and also acted in the former. In 1963, Parekh joined the Weavers Service Centre, an initiative of the All-India Handloom Board, headed by the cultural activist and scholar Pupul Jayakar. Between 1965 and 1975, Parekh lived in Kolkata, where he met and inaugurated lasting friendships with the writer Shakti Chattopadhyaya and Subhash Mukhopadhyaya: the artists Somnath Hore, Jogen Chowdhury, Ganesh Pyne and Shyamal Datta Ray; as well as Bansi Chandragupta and Subroto Mitra from the world of cinema. In 1975, Parekh shifted to New Delhi as a design consultant to the Handicrafts Handloom Export Corporation of India. He resigned his job in 1990 and embarked on a fresh phase of life as an independent artist. A benchmark exhibition of his mixed-media paintings, made in homage to the victims of the infamous Bhagalpur blindings, opened at the Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, that year, followed soon after by his &#8216;Banaras Landscapes&#8217; at the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 1991. Since then, Parekh has held periodic solo exhibitions, participated in a series of group shows and been shown in curated exhibitions, most recently, &#8220;The Pursuit of Intensity&#8217; (Foundation B&amp;G, 2009). Penguin published Parekh&#8217;s book, Banaras: Painting the Sacred City, in 2005; and Mapin\/ Lund Humphries published a collection of essays on his work. <em>Manu Parekh: Banaras, Eternity Watches Time, in 2007<\/em>. In 1992, the Government of India honoured Parekh with the Padma Shri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manu Parekh : The Dialogues Series \/ Curator: Ranjit Hoskote, Nancy Adajania About the Book The Dialogues Series explores the converns, careers and contexts of some of India\u2019s most acclaimed artists. 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