Folk Paintings Of Bengal
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Author | : Mandakranta Bose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : 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 | : Ajit Mookerjee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Folk art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tarapada Santra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Artisans |
ISBN | : 9788189738952 |
The folk arts of West Bengal have always been a treasure-trove of folk art in diverse forms, which found expression in almost every conceivable item of village life in earlier days. In this book, the author delves into the intricacies of the creative pattern of folk arts of Bengal, providing an overview of the vast array of art forms. The folk arts of West Bengal have always been a treasure-trove of folk art in diverse forms, which found expression in almost every conceivable item of village life in earlier days, starting from clay-built houses and corn-bins to folk painting,
Author | : Gurusadaẏa Datta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amitabh SenGupta |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : 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 | : Sarojit Datta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Folk art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Partha Mitter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521443548 |
Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in India, as part of the imperial design for the westernisation of the elite, and traces the artistic evolution from unquestioning westernisation to the construction of Hindu national identity. Through a wide range of literary and pictorial sources, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India balances the study of colonial cultural institutions and networks with the ideologies of the nationalist and intellectual movements which followed. The result is a book of immense significance, both in the context of South Asian history and in the wider context of art history.
Author | : Frank J. Korom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : 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 | : Debashish Banerji |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-01-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9788132102397 |
This volume provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. The book categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed during the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th–20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of national or oriental principle, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community. It establishes that his form of art—embedded in communitarian practices like kirtan, alpona, pet-naming, syncretism, and storytelling through oral allegories—sought a social identity within the inter-subjective context of locality, regionality, nationality, and trans-nationality. The author presents Abanindranath as a creative agent who, through his art, conducted a critical engagement with post-Enlightenment modernity and regional subalternity.
Author | : DURGADAS MUKHOPADHYAY |
Publisher | : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 8123024886 |
In a traditional society like India, art is the Integral part of the general life of the people. The urge to express, communicate and share something beautiful gave birth to performing arts. Folk performing art is changing its structure , continuously modifying itself to the needs of the changing situation making it functionally relevant to the society. All this has been effectively brought out in this book.