India's Mithila painting / edited by Paula Richman and David L. Szanton.

Other author Richman, Paula, editor.
Other author Szanton, David L., 1938- editor.
Format Book
PublicationSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2025]
Description342 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

Physical mediumillustrations.
Physical mediummaps.
SeriesGlobal South Asia
Global South Asia. ^A1334409
Partial contents From marriage genealogies to Archer's photos / Neel Rekha -- Transforming craft into art / Tracey M. Black -- The Mithila Art Institute / Kaushik Kumar Jha and David L. Szanton -- The politics of Mithila painting / David L. Szanton -- My life as an artist / Rani Jha, translated by Suman Jha -- Personal experience, social norms, and Mithila painting / Vinita Sinha -- The aesthetics of equality in marriage / Shalinee Kumari and Susan Snow Wadley -- Color, rhythm and repetision in paintings by Dalit Women of Mithila / Mani Shekhar Singh -- Trees of the honey forest / John H. Bowles -- Representing Sita's Life / Paula Richman -- Painting stories and filming change / Coralynn V. Davis -- The murder of Phool Jha in Krishnanand Jha's drawings / Gursharan S. Sidhu -- Exhibiting Mithila art in its cultural context / Katie Lazarowicz -- The transnational field of Mithila paintings in the 1970s / Hélène Fleury and Damien Ehrhardt -- Mithila painting as vernacular expression in the contemporary art world / Lina Vincent.
Abstract "This volume is the first to present a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the history and practitioners of Mithila painting. Among its contributors are anthropologists, scholars of art history and visual art, Mithila artists, and historians of Indian religions and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2024009801
ISBN9780295753225 (hardcover)
ISBN0295753226
ISBN(ebook)

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