Indian Art Worlds in Conflict: Local, Regional, & National Discourses on Orissan Patta Paintings (80) - Couverture rigide

Bundgaard, Helle

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 070070986X ISBN 13 : 9780700709861

Editeur : Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This beautifully illustrated book explores the opinions of artists, critics and others involved with arts or crafts, arguing for a theory that considers the different discursive formations and related strategic practices of an art world.

Focusing on Orissan patta paintings in India the author examines the local, regional and national discourses involved. In so doing, the text demonstrates that, while painters' local discourses are characterised by pragmatism, the discourses of regional and especially national elites are concerned with the exegesis of local paintings and their association with the great Sanskrit tradition A central theme of the study focuses on the awards given for skill in craft making and their changing significance as they pass from national and regional elites to local painters. It is shown how certain key actions by local painters result from a clash between local discourses on the one hand and regional and national discourses on the other.

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À propos de l'auteur

Helle Bundgaard

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 070070986X
• ISBN 13: 9780700709861
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible