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This is the story of Cholamandal, which began in 1966 as an artists' village situated on a ten-acre plot on the Coromandel Coast near Chennai. It offered a place where artists could live, create, and share their art with others within the community. At Cholamandal, the creative artist is an equal participant in society, self-employed and independent. This book profiles a series of such creative artists, who have each carved a place for themselves in the world of art, some of them, internationally. Illustrated with over 130 beautiful colour plates depicting the artists' work, this is a wonderful and important document of a novel and sustainable idea, one which deserves emulation.

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Josef James (d. 1998) held a doctorate in economics and was a professor at the Madras Christian College. He served as an editor for Artrends, a journal published by the Progressive Painters' Association of Madras for over two decades. He was an art critic and Western music critic for the Indian Express, Madras, and wrote regularly for journals such as the Lalit Kala Contemporary. He is one of the authors of the book Indian Art since the Early 40s--A Search for Identity, published by the artists of the Cholamandal Artists' Village. He edited Art and Life in India after Independence for the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, and is the author of The Madras Metaphor and An Algebra of Figuration, two books on sculpture published by OUP.

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