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Painted songs : continuity and change in an Indian folk art

Title: Painted songs : continuity and change in an Indian folk art / Thomas Kaiser ; [translation German-English, Joan Clough ; maps, Karina Moschke].
Author: Kaiser, Thomas.
Publication: Stuttgart [Germany] : Arnoldsche Art Publishers, ©2012.

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Description

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits, facsimiles; 31 cm

Summary

For over 2000 years and until just a few decades ago artists traveled throughout India, using painted picture scrolls to spread stories from the great Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana, as well as a wealth of stories about regional Gods and heroes and moral tales, amongst the mostly illiterate rural population. These artists were the creators and bearers of an art form which spread from India across China to Japan, and westward to the Mediterranean region. In the hands of the painters and singers, the picture scrolls became a portable cinema, projection screens for mythical knowledge and an incentive to listen to the songs whilst looking at the scrolls. Political changes, technical innovation and social turmoil in the twentieth century ushered in profound changes to oral art forms. As their tradition lost significance, the Indian scroll-painting artists also lost their public and their income. Two Bengali picture-scroll traditions still defy adverse conditions; however, whereas the 'patua' rose to the challenge, the 'jadopatia' failed and their tradition is in terminal decline.

Uniform Title

Bildrollen. English

Alternative Title

Bildrollen.
Rollenspiel und Bildgesang.

Subjects

Folk art > India > History
Scrolls, Indic > History

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ethnographic Museum, University of Zürich, Zürich, Sept. 1, 2012-March 3, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Heaven and earth -- Indian pictures and picture scrolls -- Asian picture scroll traditions -- The jadopatia -- The patua -- Tradition and change -- Scroll paintings. The picture scroll as object ; Sins, death and hell ; The Santal creation myth ; Gods and legends ; Recent changes.

ISBN

9783897903661
3897903660

OCLC

ocn823223033
823223033
SCSB-1656066

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library