Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and design, a movement in decorative arts and architecture. It was a movement that carved its niche among varied decorative arts and architecture after its successful outcome at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts), held […]
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One of the oldest living city of India, Varanasi, formerly known as Banaras or Kashi, houses a variety of intangible as well as tangible heritage. The heterogeneous nature of the city attracts thousands of tourists all around the year. Situated amidst this assorted set up is the Ramnagar Fort. The architecture of the fort aptly
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Image Source : Museo Camera: Gurugram Museums around the globe have evolved over the time in the sense that the way in which they are portrayed and interpreted has changed considerably. The same can be said about Indian museums. There has been a significant shift in the paradigm of Indian museums, a journey from old
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The derivation of the term museum accentuates a wide range of meanings and intricacies of subjects. Museums explicitly contain implications of cultural, sociological, historical, religious aspects of the society. They are not merely a repository of items but disseminate the collections through knowledge and information. In order to do so, museums have evolved over the
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Image Source : Museo Camera: Gurugram The Merriam Webster dictionary defines photography as “the art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (as film or an optical sensor)”. However, for many, photography is an art to seize a moment and immortalize it. Despite being
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