Arnolsche (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to, 218 pp, extensively illustrated throughout with over 540 items described and illustrated. Dual German / English text. A very good clean copy in a dust wrapper with some light fading to the spine and minimal rubbing to the edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. 192 p. As new. Publisher's note: "For over 2000 years and until just a few decades ago artists travelled 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 most illiterate rural population. These artists were the creators and bearers of an art form which spread from India across East and South-East Asia, as well as in a westerly direction as far as North Africa and southern Europe. 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. In the same way that other oral art forms have dwindled and lost significance, the picture scroll artists also lost their public and their income. However, in the east of India in West Bengal and Jharkhand two closely related but distinctive picture scroll traditions have been upheld: the patua and the jadopatia. Political changes, technical innovations and social turmoil brought both these traditions face to face with the necessity to develop new survival strategies too. Whilst the patua rose to the challenge, the jadopatia failed their tradition is coming to an end." ISBN: 9783897903661 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1079.…

Photos, 11.5 x 8.5, white lettered cloth, 286 pp with index, covers a little edge worn, light old paint stuck to bottom edges of covers, spine a little cocked, hinges loose else a nice, fresh copy in rubbed dust jacket. German silverware.