- This volume, now revised and enhanced, explores the evolution of the
leitmotif of Bindu in Raza's art over a span of 50 years- Featuring many
previously unseen picturesThe Bindu has been the leitmotif in S.H.
Raza's work, growing in meaning over many years.To this primordial
symbol he was introduced as a boy of eight years, in his native village
of Kakaiya in Madhya Pradesh. The intensity of the experience remained,
pursuing him as a lodestar, surfacing many years later when he was in
France with dynamic force as The Black Sun.Raza's concern with nature
was to explore the elementary principles of time and space which govern
the universe. To express these fundamental concepts which form the basis
of Indian thought, he used the principles of pure geometry. His use of
the point, line square, circle and triangle compose part of a universal
language, explored equally by the pioneers of abstract art in 20th
century Europe and traditional shilpins in ancient India. This revised
edition traces the evolution of a vision over fifty years of painting by
an artist who retained his Indian sensibility. His images are
improvisations on an essential theme: the mapping out of a metaphorical
space in the mind which is India.
