A Life in Art: Raza is the most comprehensive book to appear on the long life and the rich artistic career of a great master. Written and edited by the eminent poet-critic and art-lover Ashok Vajpeyi, the book carries nearly 100 colour-reproductions of his paintings covering a period of sixty years, plus nearly 50 sketches, drawings etc. Besides materials written in his own hand by Raza in English, Hindi, and French, some rare photographs, including those of his first school in a village, the school register, press clippings, etc., appear for the first time in this book. It contains an extended writing, ’The Passionate Grace’, by noted art critic Yashodhara Dalmia and extracts from many French, German, and Indian critics, Raza’s statements about his art and comprehensive, up-to-date information about his life and art.
