Village of Painters
Subtitle: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal
Contributors: Paul J. Smutko (Photographer)
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: September 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780890134894
Subjects: Folk art; Sociology; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; India; American - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Exhibitions; Narrative painting, Indic; Scrolls, Indic; West Bengal
Description: "Village of Painters profiles the West Bengali village of Naya, a small agricultural outpost that is home to a unique caste of itinerant scroll painters. The Patuas of West Bengal are a traditional artisan caste specializing in the production of painted narrative scrolls and the performance of songs to accompany their unrolling. These artisans have been plying their trade in this region of India at least since the thirteenth century and possibly earlier. Village of Painters features a wide range of contemporary scrolls and examines how their makers are keeping the art vibrantly alive in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of West Bengal."--Jacket.