Juxtaposing Modernism and Regional Modernism: Sculptures of Raghav

Abstract

Raghav Kaneria is considered to be one of the early modern Indian sculptors for his experiments
of early 1960s. He began his journey at the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine arts,
Baroda under the pedagogy of Sankho Chaudhury. He attempted to exercise various mediums
like bronze, cement, wood as well as scrap metal and wood. His travel and education abro ad
exposed him to modern European sculpture which he adopted as his language. He further
translated his childhood memories from his native village into his subjectivity. This paper
attempts to highlight Kaneria’s journey of employing a European modernist language and
rendering it with the idea of regional modernism.