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A001107 THE HOLY BIBLE IN REPLICA ART

Dr Darla Nageswara Rao

Dr Darla Nageswara Rao, also known as N.R.Darla, works as Artist in Govt.Central Press, Chanchalguda, Hyderabad, AndhraPradesh invented the art form of “REPLICA”, that is, to copy exactly by hand, the full text of a printed matter. For this purpose, he has already copied the first pages of many daily news papers of India & International dailies and was very much acclaimed as the copy-cat or the Replica artist. Then in the year 2012, repeated the style of Replica art to copy out all the 158 pages containing two verses of the Holy Bible, namely Genesis and Exodus as originally existing in the printed book of authorized King James Version . An appreciable part of this exercise is that, if the last page of this 158 pages copied book is pulled apart, all the pages unfold as a big ribbon and if all those pages are folded back, again it turns out to be a book. One roll sheet of paper was used for every fifty pages and roll sheets of fifty and fifty pages were joined. Every page has two columns was done with the following heights and lengths