Lessons from hell
Subtitle: printing and punishment in India
By: Christopher Pinney
Series: Marg quarterly publications -- v.69, no.3; Marg publications (Mumbai, India) -- v. 69, no. 3.
Publisher: Radhika Sabavala for the Marg Foundation
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Mumbai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9789383243204
Subjects: Prints; Technique; History; Hell in art; Punishment in art; Chromolithography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lessons from Hell: The oldest of archives; title: "Atrocious representations"; title: Myth, play and pedagogy; title: Short notes on Heaven; title: Printing in India; title: Veracity and the "public"; title: Puranic origins; title: Colonial Hell; title: Indian hells in a global context; title: The architecture of Hell; title: Yampats; title: The mechanics of mimesis; title: Dalit critiques; title: The history of Hell; title: Celluloid Hell; title: Mimesis as an infection; title: From Karni Bharni to ideal boy; title: The politics of Karni Barni; title: Notes; title: Index; title: Acknowledgments.