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Speaking with Pictures - Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (Hardcover)
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Speaking with Pictures - Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Asian Studies
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Speaking with Pictures is a path-breaking exploration of visual
narratives in folk art. Instead of talking of the recovery of
narrativity in Indian modernism through the idiom of folk art, as
art critics sometimes do, this book 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. It 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'. An ethnographic account of innovations that
have been taking place in the folk arts is offered 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, such as the use of Gond art for animation and graphic
novels in the patua style.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.
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