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Tantra Song - Tantric Painting from Rajasthan (Hardcover)
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Tantra Song - Tantric Painting from Rajasthan (Hardcover)
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This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived
when the French poet Franck Andre Jamme stumbled on a small
catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller's stall. The volume
included writings by Octavio Paz and Henri Michaux, and Jamme
became fascinated by the images' affinity with modern art and
poetry. He read voraciously and even journeyed to India, searching
in vain for Tantric practitioners, until a bus accident on the road
to Jaipur sent him home to France with serious injuries. When he
returned a few years later, he met a soothsayer who proclaimed that
Jamme had now paid sufficient tribute to the goddess Shakti and
required him to take a vow: he must visit the "tantrikas" alone or
only in the company of a loved one. Since then, Jamme has gained
extraordinary access to very private communities of adepts and
their intensely beautiful works. These contemporary, anonymous
drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of
Tantric art--the geometric yantras, or erotic illustrations of the
"Kama Sutra." The progeny of seventeenth-century illustrated
religious treatises, these drawings have evolved into a distinct
visual lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of
consciousness and are imbued with specific spiritual meanings (e.g.
spirals and arrows for energy, an inverted triangle for Shakti). A
revelatory volume on this occluded genre of Indian art, "Tantra
Song" is a convergence of east and west, the spiritual and the
aesthetic, the ancient and the modern.
Franck Andre Jamme is the author of more than a dozen volumes of
poetry. His translated workds (by John Ashbery, Charles Borkuis,
David Kelley and others) include "New Exercises," "Another Silent
Attack," "The Recitation of Forgetting" and "Extracts of the Life
of a Beetle." He has collaborated on books with a number of artists
including Philippe Favier, Suzan Frecon, Acharya Vyakul and Hanns
Schimansk. A specialist in Art Brut, Tantric and tribal art of
India, he has participated in exhibitions at Centre Pompidou,
Beaux-Art de Paris and The Drawing Center, among others.
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