Art history/ Historiography, Museum/ Gallery / Collection
Painted Fables: The Panchatantra interpreted through Art - Curatorial Note
Sethi, Ritu
October, 2017
PANCHATANTRA
Why choose the Panchatantra as a theme for an exhibition of art? What is contemporary about a collection of animal fables that is over 2000 years old?
Visnusarma, its author and renowned sage speaks to us over the ages to tell us why:
Whosoever learns this work by heart,
Or through the story-tellers art,
Will never face defeat
Even if his foe
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