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The Two-Headed Deer: Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa: 34 (California Studies in the History of Art) - Hardcover
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India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works, interviewed artists, and observed them at work. With depth and originality, Williams considers how Indian art tells a story in distinctive ways. Her narratological study takes into account many familiar genres of visual art: illustrated manuscripts, drawings on palm leaf paper, wall paintings, shadow plays, temple sculpture, and painted cloth "pata". Included are discussions of pan-Indian versions of the epic, which include film, video, and the comic strip; and those local to Orissa, including rural theatre and festivals. Noting that we often treat images designed to be seen in sequence as separate pictures, Williams argues that con-sidering several Ramayana images in sequence reveals their qualities of variety, surprise, and emotional development, promoting an understanding of "how" the story is told. She discusses the artists' narrative strategies and offers interpretations of how and why artists made their choices. Williams persuasively argues against critics who believe that Indian art, indeed any traditional art, is conventional and lacks individual technique or vision. Her analysis across a variety of genres offers a new model for art historians; at the same time anthropologists, folklorists, and scholars of literature and narratology will find her work of great value.
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"An elegant cross-disciplinary foray that, like Rama's monkey army, bridges the oceanic strait that too often separates the fields of Art History, Folklore, and Literary and Performance Studies. . . . A great boon to all who seek to better understand the creative genius of India."Philip Lutgendorf, author of The Life of a Text
"In this stunningly mature work, one of America's leading historians of Indian art explores the terrain whose longitude is word and whose latitude, image. . . . Here patron, temple, artist, story, period, genre, region, subregion, and even particular towns unite to produce a study that sends out light in every direction. It is the product of many years' labor, and a beautiful product it is."John S. Hawley, author ofDevi
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- VerlagUniversity of California Press
- Erscheinungsdatum1996
- ISBN 10 0520080653
- ISBN 13 9780520080652
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The two-headed deer. Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0520080653
ISBN 13: 9780520080652
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Zustand: Sehr gut. XXIII, 210 S. 112 Tafeln. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - This book concerns illustrations of the Ramayana, an epic poem with epic impli-cations for contemporary India. Familiar to most Indians, the Ramayana is an ever-evolving tale of a prince, his bride, demons -their adventures and dilemmas. Williams studies the art of Orissa, where she inter-viewed artists and observed their methods. Orissa is located in rieh rice-growing plains along the eastern coast between Bengal and Andhra, a region known for its elegantly carved and architecturally ambi-tious temples. Williams breaks new ground in consider-ing Indian pictures as sequences that teil a story in distinetive ways. Her narratological study considers many familiar genres of vis-ual art-illustrated manuscripts, drawings on palm-leaf paper, wall paintings, shadow plays, temple sculpture, painted cloth patas, and other popular and fine art. Williams points out that we often treat images designed to be seen in sequence as separate pictures. Instead, she argues that for a series with narrative content, we must consider several images in sequence to understand how the story is told. To restrict oneself only to formal analysis is to omit dramatic qualities such as variety, surprise, and emotional development sustained over a sequence of images. Williams analyzes var-ious works of the Ramayana scene by scene, discusses narrative strategies used by artists, and then offers interpretations of how and why the artists made their choiees. Williams discusses pan-Indian versions of the epic on film and video and in the comic strip as well as those local to Orissa, including versions performed in rural the-ater and festivals. ISBN 9780520080652 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Mit zahlr. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 925643
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