The Journal of Contemporary Thought
Summer Issue - 2003
Special Number Visual Culture

Contents:

In Memoriam
Bhupen Khakar
(1934 - 2003)

  Introduction
- Parul Dave Mukherji & Asma Rasheed

  Bhupen Khakar : A Historical Instance of True Reckoning and Disclosures
- Shivaji K. Panikkar

  Bhupen Khaker : A Select Chronology


  From Visual Culture to Visual Art : The Normative Shift
- Paul Crowther

  Merleau - Panty's Eye and Mind : Re - Thinking the Visible 
- David Brubaker

The Work of art in the Epoch of the Hegemony of Commodities
- Lev Kreft

  Aesthetics and Multiculturalism : Problems of Comparative Aesthetics
- Jale Nejdet Erzen

 Geometry , Symmetry ; Design , Intention :
 Notes on a Certain 'Turn' Point in Modern Aesthetics
- Arindam Dutta

 Of Nation , Mountains and Photography
- Aleš Erjavec

 Picturing the Goddess : Deciphering Meanings In Modern 'Public Culture'
- Sugata Ray

 Hybridized Signs and Sites : Inculturation or a Strategy of Survival ?
- Jothi F. Xavier

 Formation and Contestation of Meaning in Artworks
 and within Contemporary Art Institutions
- Marina Grzinic
 

 A Biological Mapping to Culture : The Concepts of Culturome ,
 Social Disease and Aesthetic Contagion
- Katya Mandoki

 Book Review
- Sugata Ray

 Conference Notes
- Gita Viswanath

 Workshop Notes
- Mandakini V. Jha & Ranjan K. Panda