KamZour Journal · Topic
Aesthetics & Ideas
The big questions about art: what makes it move us, where its lines are drawn, and why.
Art History
The Sixty-Four Arts: India’s First Curriculum of Creativity
About seventeen centuries ago, a scholar listed the skills of a cultured life. Singing and painting sit beside gardening, cooking, riddles and teaching a parrot to speak. Here is what the list says, who it was for, and why it still matters.
Aesthetics & Ideas
What Is Rasa? The Indian Theory of How Art Makes You Feel
About two thousand years ago, an Indian treatise on theatre asked the question every artist still asks: what exactly happens inside us when a work of art moves us? Its answer, rasa, went on to shape Indian drama, dance, music and painting.
Aesthetics & Ideas
Naked or Nude? Why an Artistic Nude Is Not Pornography
Museums, art schools, courts and the largest online platforms all draw a line between the nude in art and material made for sexual gratification. Here is where that line sits, why it sits there, and how KamZour keeps to it.