Author Description Born in Benaras, U.P., in 1930 Ranedranath bandyopadhyay took his M.A. in English from Calcutta University. He has given nearly four decades to teaching in Gobardanga Hindu College from where he has retired. His other interests include music and painting. He has translated major Western writers like Caudwell, Flaubert, Ivo Andrich in Bengali. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 1996 for his Bengali translation Sarpa O Rajju (original : The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao). Sesher Kavitar Chitrakalpa (The Imagery of Sesher Kavita/2001) is his only original work in Bengali. Contents page Chapter-1 Absence of right in Art 1-16 Chapter-2 Right to Art 17-29 Chapter-3 Sight and Creation 30-61 Chapter-4 Art and Language 62-82 Chapter-5 Mobility and Immobility of Art 83-98 Chapter-6 The Search for Beauty 99-121 Chapter-7 Art and Anatomy 122-139 Chapter-8 The Interior and the Exterior 140-155 Chpater-9 Theory and Formula 156-166 Chapter-10 Function of the Treatise on art 167-185 Chapter-11 Function of the Treatise on art 186-203 Chapter-12 The Merits and demerits of the action and process of art 204-219

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