Naga Art

Naga Art
Author: Milada Ganguli
Publisher: International Science Publisher
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Imag(in)ing the Nagas

Imag(in)ing the Nagas
Author: Alban von Stockhausen
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9783897904125

This publication opens up a fascinating insight into the culture of the Naga tribes in the Eastern foothills of the Himalayas. Based on around 400 historical photographs, the author reconstructs with scientific precision the encounters between the Nagas, the British colonial empire and two German-speaking explorers, their pictorial worlds and ideologies.

Naga Textiles

Naga Textiles
Author: Marion Wettstein
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Naga (South Asian people)
ISBN: 9783897904194

The focus of this comprehensive work is the aesthetics and the decryption of the language of the textiles of the Nagas, a group of tribal local cultures in the north-east of India and the north-west of Burma. For more than ten years, anthropologist Marion Wettstein has systematically been drawing the traditional fabrics, and researching their design, production techniques, meaning and contemporary transposition into fashion. More than 60 color pencil drawings and 180 watercolors on the morphology of the textile samples are considered by the author to be not just an artistic translation but in particular visual argumentation. While the work shows how the textile patterns are laden with meaning of a complex system of status and social structure, it also illuminates what is understood by these concepts in the context of the Nagas and to what extent they are also constructs of colonial and scientific intervention.

The Art of Awakening

The Art of Awakening
Author: Konchog Lhadrepa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0834840618

A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience. The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide to the Tibetan Buddhist path, from preliminary practices through enlightenment, from the artist's perspective. With profound wisdom, he shows how visual representations of the sacred in paintings, sculptures, mandalas, and stupas can be an essential support to practice throughout the path. This work, based on the author's landmark Tibetan text, The Path to Liberation, includes basic Buddhist teachings and practices, clearly pointing out the relevance of these for both the sacred artist and the practitioner, along with an overview of the history and iconography of Buddhist art.

Bamboo

Bamboo
Author: G. K. Ghosh
Publisher: APH Publishing
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2008
Genre: Bamboo
ISBN: 9788131303696

The World Atlas of Tattoo

The World Atlas of Tattoo
Author: Anna Felicity Friedman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300210485

"A grand tour of the world's great tattoos"--Atlas Obscura "This book--part global art historical tome, part coffee-table book of visual wonders--is a valuable corrective to many silly things that we assume about tattooing."--The New Republic A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient times to today Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in the 21st century, as its popularity has exploded. An expanding number of tattoo artists have been mining the past for lost traditions and innovating with new technology. An enormous diversity of styles, genres, and techniques has emerged, ranging from geometric blackwork to vibrant, painterly styles, and from hand-tattooed works to machine-produced designs. With over 700 stunning color illustrations, this volume considers historical and contemporary tattoo practices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Each section, dedicated to a specific geographic region, features fascinating text by tattoo experts that explores the history and traditions native to that area as well as current styles and trends. The World Atlas of Tattoo also tracks the movement of styles from their indigenous settings to diasporic communities, where they have often been transformed into creative, multicultural, hybrid designs. The work of 100 notable artists from around the globe is showcased in this definitive reference on a widespread and intriguing art practice.

ナーガ

ナーガ
Author: Hajime Sorayama
Publisher: Books Nippan
Total Pages: 1
Release: 1997-03-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9784878932724

The long awaited arrival of the latest collection Sorayama's erotic illustrations, NAGA, which was completed after his previous best-seller, GYNOIDS. Since the '83 release of SEXY ROBOTS, his combination of technical perfection and feminine sensuality has gained instant worldwide recognition such that in 1996, he was hired as a character designer for the Hollywood production "Space Trucker", starring Dennis Hopper. The 65 works gathered in this lavish collection all reflect the central theme of this book: water, a serpent, and feminine beauty.

Geographies of Difference

Geographies of Difference
Author: Mélanie Vandenhelsken
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351615629

This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region. Drawing on current and emerging research in Northeast India studies, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, human geography, sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, media studies and South Asian studies.