Baiju Parthan

Trivia

• This book records Parthan's participation in the last years of the countercultural hippie scene, his encounters with spiritual teachings and shamanic lore, his experiments with form, and his engagement with media flows and alternative reality environments.
• It maps his journey from his childhood in Kerala, through his student years in Goa, to his struggle to find a niche in the contemporary Indian art scenario.
• Written by the noted art critic, poet and independent curator Ranjit Hoskote, Baiju Parthan: A User's Manual takes the reader on a tour through the artist's diversely populated imagination.
• Has combined his painterly concerns with his explorations of cyberspace to produce a series of provocative, richly textured installations.
• While elaborating the workings of a mysterious inner universe through his paintings.
• Is known as a pioneer of intermedia art in India.

Quotes

• A User's Manual includes a monographic essay on the artist by Hoskote, as well as a freewheeling conversation between artist and author, extracts from Parthan's journal, a section on his intermedia works, a selection of the artist's occasional writings, and a biographical essay.