Tale of the Talking Face

K. G. Subramanyan, one of India's most respected artists, has worked with diverse media and materials, exhibiting extensively both within and outside the country. He has been part of the arts faculty at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, and is professor emeritus at the Kala Bhavan Center at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. His other books include The Magic of Making: Essays on Art and Culture and The Living Tradition: Perspectives on Modern Indian Art, both also published by Seagull Books.

"[Subramanyan's] art is radical in content, open in its approach to style and aesthetic ideas, meeting the proponents of style and craftsmen as equals and reflecting a high standard of artistic skills of different kinds. Cowed down neither by the figurative and non-figurative debate, nor loyalty to a school, which would restrain his originality, he is the quintessential Indian contemporary artist." (Suneet Chopra, Frontline) "[Subramanyan has] come to be identified with the play of wit and satire, and with a phantasmagoric theatre of surfaces." (Nancy Adajania, Hindu)"