Dalit Art and Visual Imagery

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-807936-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

This volume creates a seamless narrative of Dalit identity through use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts. Spanning the historical and contemporary period, the volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hindu temples and traditional caste system, popular art and painting, and state-sponsored architecture and sculpture. Raising the face of contemporary untouchability into view, it explores the uses of visual imagery by, for and against Dalits in
Indian society. Where are the images of Dalit oppression in the Hindu temple or Dalit triumph in the Navayana Buddhist viharas? How have Dalits used images of B.R. Ambedkar to bring their reality before the nation? How are Dalits attempting to use visual imagery to describe the world around them, work
out their own identities and to shape their destinies? The collection offers a variety of approaches to the study of visual imagery and issues of Dalit experience.

This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of Dalit studies, sociology, modern Indian history, and religion (particularly Buddhism) and others concerned with caste politics.

Zielgruppe

This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of Dalit studies, sociology, modern Indian history, and religion (particularly Buddhism) and others concerned with caste politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tartakov, Gary Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Art and Identity: The Rise of a New Buddhist Imagery by Gary Michael Tartakov
2: The Hindu Temple as the Representation and Instrument of Caste in Traditional India by Gary Michael Tartakov
3: New Paths to Sanchi by Gary Michael Tartakov
4: The Politics of Popular Art: Maharashtra by Gary Michael Tartakov
5: Learning the Use of Symbolic Means: Dalits, Ambedkar Statues and the State in Uttar Pradesh by Nicolas Jaoul
6: The Navayana Creation of the Buddha Image by Gary Michael Tartakov
7: Navayana Buddhists on the Public Stage by Gary Michael Tartakov
8: Ambedkar Jayanti, Hierarchy and the Darshan Effect by Owen M. Lynch
9: Mithila Painting: The Dalit Intervention by David L. Szanton
10: Dalit Painting Seen from the Outside by Gary Michael Tartakov
11: The Dalit Iconography of an Expressionist Imagination by Saurabh Dube
12: Dalits, Art and the Imagery of Everyday Life by Gary Michael Tartakov
13: Sister Mysore Seeks the Canon by Gary Michael Tartakov
Notes on Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Michael Tartakov is Professor Emeritus of Art and Design History, Iowa State University. He is former Interim Director of African American Studies, Iowa State University.