Jyoti Bhatt’s Diaries: Conscious/Subconscious Depiction of Journey

EasyChair Preprint no. 6829

Abstract

Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt, in short Jyoti Bhatt, A Baroda based Padam Shri awarded versatile artist. He studied at the MSU (Baroda), Academia di Belle Arti in Naples (Italy), Pratt Institute in New York where he explored the field of Printmaking, Painting, Drawing, Design and Photography. He had begun their artistic carrier as a part of the Group 1890. In late ‘60s, Bhatt started documenting Traditional Indian Craft and Design through lens; during this journey he started maintaining diaries where he consciously or subconsciously drew thoughts in the forms of Doodling and Scribbling. These diaries having both artistically and thematically scope about what Jyoti Bhatt perceived during travelling. Author tries to trace the various borrowing, appropriations, emulations and idioms and contextualize them in brief.

Keyphrases: Conscious & Subconscious, Doodling & Scribbling, Folk art & craft, Indian Modernism, Traveler’s Diary

@Booklet{EasyChair:6829,
  author = {Saroj Kumar Das and Vinit Bihari and Ritesh Ranjan},
  title = {Jyoti Bhatt’s Diaries: Conscious/Subconscious Depiction of Journey},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 6829},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}