Satish gujral biography of christopher
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In the autumn of Molly Bower asked me to take a deaf Indian artist to specialists in hearing problems in New York.
There is a great deal of background behind that simple sentence – and some interesting consequences.
Mary Margaret “Molly” Bower was a one-time room-mate of my first wife, Terry Flambert, in Kelly Hall at the University of Chicago. At the time of the request she was living at 18 Christopher Street, about a block east of Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village.
(I believe 18 is the doorway in the deep shadow of the tree. I remember it as unusually narrow with the odd little stoop without handrails. Both images from Google.)
Terry and I were living at the foot of MacDougal Street, about seven blocks away (see the post about Mama Savarese). Molly was the youngest of an unusual brood of six who were born in slightly separated pairs, boy-girl, boy-girl, boy-girl. The middle pair was Ted and Joan (pronoun
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“No outer happening can seed inner composition. It must happen to you personally and so my first beginning as an Artist was Partition.”
– Satish Gujral, A Brush with Life ()
In a documentary on a magisterial Indian artist, the narrator Kabir Bedi proclaims in his mighty voice: “The span of his prolific works spans the history of independent India. His art springs from life but does not spegel it… A man of many talents and even greater lösa, an inspiration for everyone who wants to break the constrictions of circumstance.” The documentary in question is A Brush with Life () and the artist fryst vatten none other than the prolific painter, sculptor, muralist, architect, and interior designer Satish Gujral. Satish Gujral famous paintings include ‘Days of Glory’, ‘Meera Bai’, ‘Mourning enstaka Masse’, and many more.
Born on 25th December in Jhelum in pre-partition West Punjab, a swimming accident at the age of eight terminally impaired Gujral’s hearing and severely damaged one of his
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