Overview for The Making of A Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman:
Devi Prasad Devi Prasad (1921-2011), India's pioneering artist-
potter, visionary educationist and pacifist, joined
Santiniketan, India's premier art school in 1938 when founder
Rabindranath Tagore was still involved with the institution. At
Nandalal Bose's suggestion and following a correspondence with
Gandhi in 1944 he joined Sevagram, Gandhi's ashram, as Art
Teacher, where he taught for nearly twenty years. His political
consciousness saw him participate actively in the Quit India
Movement in 1942 and in social reforms such as Vinoba Bhave's
Bhoodan - the land gift movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Apart
from the making of his personal history and his times, this book
leads us to why the creative act of making art itself takes on
such a fundamental philosophical significance in his life - an
ideal derived directly from his absorption of Gandhi's
principles. The purpose of art and life as they came to be
realised by him, needed a change in the very