References

1. Duncan Alastair, 1998, Modernism: Modernist Design 1880 1940 , the Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, 225p.

2. Mukherjee Ajit, 1985, Ritual Art of India , Timeless Books, New Delhi, 176p.

3. Jacob Julian, 1990, Hill People of Northeast India, The Nagas , society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter , Thamson and Hudson, New York, 359p.

4. Lalit Kala Akademi, 1997, Major Trend in Indian Art , Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India, 282p.

5. (Cassirer, 1945) Language and Myth , Ernst Cassirer, Dover Books, New York, 1945.

Author's biography

Academic background :

M.F.A, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India

Experience & Achievement :

• Since 1979 he has been exhibiting his works at most of the major art galleries in India.
• Apart from his career in Art & Design he has been associated with regional films as an art director.

• In 1997 he worked in the film 'Wosobipo' (the spring) as an art director, which won the national award in 1990 and has entered Berlin International film festival in 1991 and Friburg International film festival in 1992.
• Included his work titled ' A butterfly was passing by' in 'Glimpses of Indian Art from 1947-97' a book published by AIFACS in the occasion of 50 years of art in independent India, inaugurated by H.E. Sri K.R. Narayanan president of India in 1998.
• Included his name in the dictionary of 'Modern Art and Artists' of India compiled by Pratima Seth a well-known art historian. ·

• Life member of Kamrupa Anushandhan Samiti (a research society), Assam since 1990.

Exhibitions:
Participated in over 35 major exhibitions in India including National Exhibition of Art, New Delhi. AIFACS, New Delhi. Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta. Birla Academy, Calcutta. Jahengir Art Gallery, Mumbai. Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal etc.

Awards:
Art Fest National Award 1997. AIFACS, State Level Award. 1997. Fellowship awarded by Ministry of Human Resources, 1998.

Area of Interest : Basic Design, Crafts, Illustration, Digital Art, Colour symbology, History of Art & Design, Visual Language etc.

Area of research : Indianness in Art and Design, Traditional art and artifacts of Northeast India, and Semantics of form and colour symbology.

Address:

Utpal Barua
Assistant professor
Dept. of Design
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
North Guwahati
PO. IITG
Pin- 781039, Assam
India

Ph. 91 361 2691050 (res.)

      91 361 2582452 (office)

Photographs:

1) Figure 1. Refined contemporary artifacts from North East

2) Figure 2. Khaloi and Kula changed its traditional function to lampshades

3) Figure 3. Lampshade

4) Figure 4. Human and animal skulls used for rituals

5) Figure 5. Contemporary design of a lampshade

6) Figure 6.   Bodo and Missing dress

7) Figure 7. Textiles of North East

8) Figure 8. Traditional ornaments of North East

9) Figure 9. House decoration

10) Figure 10. Naga sculpture and Picasso's imagination