The American sculptor Richard Zawitz seeks, and finds, in his work the serenity and spiritual tranquility of Shanta rasa In his essay ‘The Theory of Art in Asia’, Ananda Coomaraswamy confirmed his reputation as one of the twentieth century’s most erudite scholars of the sacred arts of both East and West. He expounded on many…

The placement by an artist of an object in an installation infuses the physical materiality of the object with a meaning that comes not so much from its original signifying system but a wider system of context and allusion.  It is this ability to carry and convey meaning that gives installation art much of its…