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Lessons from hell : printing and punishment in India / Christopher Pinney ; editors, Jyotindra Jain, Naman P. Ahuja.
Fine Arts Library NE747.3 .P46 2018
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LIBRA NE747.3 .P56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinney, Christopher, author.
- Series:
- Marg publications (Mumbai, India) ; v.69, no.3.
- Marg quarterly publications ; v.69, no.3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prints--India--Technique--History--19th century.
- Prints.
- Prints--India--Technique--History--20th century.
- Hell in art--19th century.
- Hell in art.
- Hell in art--20th century.
- Punishment in art.
- Chromolithography--India--19th century.
- Chromolithography.
- Chromolithography--India--20th century.
- Prints--Technique.
- Technique.
- History.
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Mumbai : The Marg Foundation, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This book documents the growth of printed images of punishments in hell from 19th and 20th century India. It explores what happens when new technologies of image reproduction collide with deep cultural traditions, and traces the sources of the iconography and formal visual structures that found new expression in late 19th century chromolithographs showing deeds and their punishments"--inside front cover.
- Contents:
- Lessons from Hell: The oldest of archives
- "Atrocious representations"
- Myth, play and pedagogy
- Short notes on Heaven
- Printing in India
- Veracity and the "public"
- Puranic origins
- Colonial Hell
- Indian hells in a global context
- The architecture of Hell
- Yampats
- The mechanics of mimesis
- Dalit critiques
- The history of Hell
- Celluloid Hell
- Mimesis as an infection
- From Karni Bharni to ideal boy
- The politics of Karni Barni
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- "Vol. 69 no. 3 March 2018"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-133) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789383243204
- 9383243201
- OCLC:
- 1004903135
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