Author : David McCutchion
Publisher : Firma Klm Pvt. Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Folk art
ISBN :
This Book Looks At The Life And Art Of Patua Painters In Bengal. Each Volume Contains An Original Scroll Painting In It.
Author : Frank J. Korom
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
Highlights the state's rich cultural and natural landscapes and attractions with fifty-seven photographs in a week-at-a-glance format.
Author : Sharmila Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juang (Indic people)
ISBN : 9789352733828
An evaluative analysis on the socio-economic changes, culture and lifestyle of Patua (Indic people) of West Bengal and Odisha.
Author : Roma Chatterji
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000059189
Speaking with Pictures offers a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. It foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its figurative modes and the ways in which they are embedded in mythic thought. The book discusses folk art as a contemporary phenomenon which is a part of a complex visual culture where the ‘essence’ of tradition is best captured in a ‘new’ form or medium. Each chapter picks up a theme that moves between the local and the global, thereby attempting to problematise the stereotypical view of folk artists as carriers of ‘timeless tradition’. The volume provides an ethnographic account of innovations through a detailed analysis of the scroll painting tradition of the patuas of West Bengal and the Pardhan-Gond style of Madhya Pradesh, highlighting some recent attempts at inter-medium exchange in storytelling. The book will interest those in visual and popular culture in anthropology, sociology, literary criticism and folklore. It will also be of immense value to art historians, museologists, curators and NGOs working in media and communication, apart from those with a general interest in folk art.
Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher :
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Folk art
ISBN : 9789385285554
The images presented in this book take us into the heart of the rich folk tradition of India. Of that heritage, the display of paintings accompanied by comments recited or sung has been a part of since very early times, as attested by references and legends in Sanskrit sources, including the Harsacarita, a 7th century work by Banabhatta. Known as patacitras or patas in short, these illustrated narratives on rectangular fabric or paper as well as on scrolls are a type of performed art that reaches out to audiences, mostly rural, conveying the artists' responses to legends and social themes of common knowledge across a wide range of audiences from varied social and cultural bases. A particularly powerful class of such paintings that come from the Bengali-speaking region of eastern India comprise the depiction of events from the Ramayana in the form of scrolls that are unrolled as the painter displays and explicates them. The vividly colourful images presented in this book occupy a special niche in the history of Indian art, remarkable because they are not only visual objects but narrative expositions of a text that has been part of vast numbers of the Indian people and often their source of moral guidance. Especially remarkable is that these patas by Bengali folk painters diverge so often from the magisterial Ramayanas of adikavi "First Poet" Valmiki, leave out important parts of it and import into the Rama saga episodes from local narrative caches.
Author : Jyotindra Jain
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
Dr. Jain`S Analysis Is A Creative One: It An Art-Historical Grid On The Works But Allows The Theoretical Framework To Emerge From The Very Materiality, The Contradictions Inherent In The Evolution Of All Works Of Art.
Author : Lina M.. Fruzzetti
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juang (Indic people)
ISBN : 9789727763375
Exhibition accompanied by a film which allows one to hear the songs of the paintings of these women and their expressive language and to view the social relations of the the daily life of the village.
Author : Carmen Brandt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 3643906706
In the Bengali speaking regions of Bangladesh and India, the Bengali term bede today often evokes stereotypical imaginations of itinerant people. Of highly contested origin, the term has in the last two hundred years become the pivotal element for categorising and portraying diverse service nomads of the Bengal region. Besides an analysis of their portrayal in ethnographic and Bengali fictional literature, this book traces causes, reasons, and processes that have led to an increasing perception of these so-called `Bedes' as being ethnically different from the sedentary majority population.
Author : Amitabh SenGupta
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 147721383X
Th e art of vernacular painting in India is not only varied and rich but also intriguing for several reasons. With such observations the book addresses certain issues, like the validity of the historical information on Indian Art that excludes vernacular trends. The information on vernacular art in India has either been ignored such as in ancient literary discourses or inadvertently misconstrued within the theoretical purviews of modern days. If the hierarchy of the Hindu caste system has marginalised the culture of the lower rung groups, the lexicon of twentieth century anthropological studies has seen this art as material evidence of undeveloped societies; both creating the same value: to be patronised but not ‘art’. Can art be weighed on a scale of development? Arguments have been developed within the specifi c focus on scroll paintings by the itinerant painter bards in Bengal. Th e bardic tradition has been known to exist in India since a pre-Christian era and still continues within two vibrant trends of vernacular art forms – Bangla and Santhal pat. Th e book redefi nes and repositions the notion of art with contemporary folk art. As the picture Plates are self-evident, the book draws attention on a world of art that has not been present in Indian Art History.
Author : Samir Kumar Das
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811602638
This book examines the making of the Goddess Durga both as an art and as part of the intangible heritage of Bengal. As the ‘original site of production’ of unbaked clay idols of the Hindu Goddess Durga and other Gods and Goddesses, Kumartuli remains at the centre of such art and heritage. The art and heritage of Kumartuli have been facing challenges in a rapidly globalizing world that demands constant redefinition of ‘art’ with the invasion of market forces and migration of idol makers. As such, the book includes chapters on the evolution of idols, iconographic transformations, popular culture and how the public is constituted by the production and consumption of the works of art and heritage and finally the continuous shaping and reshaping of urban imaginaries and contestations over public space. It also investigates the caste group of Kumbhakars (Kumars or the idol makers), reflecting on the complex relation between inherited skill and artistry. Further, it explores how the social construction of art as ‘art’ introduces a tangled web of power asymmetries between ‘art’ and ‘craft’, between an ‘artist’ and an ‘artisan’, and between ‘appreciation’ and ‘consumption’, along with their implications for the articulation of market in particular and social relations in general. Since little has been written on this heritage hub beyond popular pamphlets, documents on town planning and travelogues, the book, written by authors from various fields, opens up cross-disciplinary conversations, situating itself at the interface between art history, sociology of aesthetics, politics and government, social history, cultural studies, social anthropology and archaeology. The book is aimed at a wide readership, including students, scholars, town planners, heritage preservationists, lawmakers and readers interested in heritage in general and Kumartuli in particular.
