%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°Beyond Borders¡±: Rabindranath Tagore¡¯s Paintings and Visva-Bharati
%A Amrit Sen
%J Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
%D 2010
%I Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
%X This paper seeks to locate Tagore¡¯s paintings and his writings on art in the context of the evolution of his ideas of Visva-Bharati. It intends to argue that as Tagore moved from the idea of the brahmavidyalaya to the idea of Visva-Bharati, his paintings and his concept of art changed substantially. The ¡®imagined community¡¯ of Visva Bharati was replicated in Tagore¡¯s canvas as he conceptualised a world without borders, where ideas and knowledge could be freely and equally assimilated and exchanged. Setting himself apart from the binaries of the self and the ¡®other¡¯ and the rhetoric of nationalism, Tagore¡¯s unique postcoloniality used the aesthetic and the pedagogic to bypass the political.
%K Tagore
%K art
%K painting
%K Visva Bharati
%U http://rupkatha.com/V2/n1/rabindranathtagorepaintings.pdf