Download or read book Art and Life in Bangladesh written by Henry Glassie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful introduction to the artists and artisans of Bangladesh and a meditation on the nature of art and life. Henry Glassie introduces us to dozens of artists working in different mediums--potters, metal workers, painters, weavers, poets--and shares the excitement of meeting new people and discovering new art forms. 12 color photos. 445 bandw photos.
Download or read book Art and Life in Bangladesh written by Henry Glassie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful introduction to the artists and artisans of Bangladesh and a meditation on the nature of art and life. Henry Glassie introduces us to dozens of artists working in different mediums--potters, metal workers, painters, weavers, poets--and shares the excitement of meeting new people and discovering new art forms. 12 color photos. 445 bandw photos.
Download or read book Rickshaw Art in Bangladesh written by France Lasnier and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving Pictures written by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Art written by Henry Glassie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 vols written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Download or read book Contemporary Art Artists written by Nazrul Islam and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel Johnston written by Henry Glassie and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANIEL JOHNSTON, raised on a farm in Randolph County, returned from Thailand with a new way to make monumental pots. Back home in North Carolina, he built a log shop and a whale of a kiln for wood-firing. Then he set out to create beautiful pots, grand in scale, graceful in form, and burned bright in a blend of ash and salt. With mastery achieved and apprentices to teach, Daniel Johnston turned his brain to massive installations. First, he made a hundred large jars and lined them along the rough road that runs past his shop and kiln. Next, he arranged curving clusters of big pots inside pine frames, slatted like corn cribs, to separate them from the slick interiors of four fine galleries in succession. Then, in concluding the second phase of his professional career, Daniel Johnston built an open-air installation on the grounds around the North Carolina Museum of Art, where 178 handmade, wood-fired columns march across a slope in a straight line, 350 feet in length, that dips and lifts with the heave while the tops of the pots maintain a level horizon. In 2000, when he was still Mark Hewitt's apprentice, Daniel Johnston met Henry Glassie, who has done fieldwork on ceramic traditions in the United States, Brazil, Italy, Turkey, Bangladesh, China, and Japan. Over the years, during a steady stream of intimate interviews, Glassie gathered the understanding that enabled him to compose this portrait of Daniel Johnston, a young artist who makes great pots in the eastern Piedmont of North Carolina.
Download or read book Contemporary Bangladesh Art written by Hong Kong Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zainul Abedin written by Zainul Abedin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only comprehensive survey of Zainul Abedin's work to date. Zainul Abedin (1914-1976), reverently called the Shilpacharya or guru of art, is the architect of the modern art movement in Bangladesh. This groundbreaking book showcases Abedin's work over a period of forty years, with more than two hundred color and black-and-white plates illustrating his special relationship with his country. Retracing his personal vision through various artistic, social, and political perspectives, this book shows how Abedin forged the way for an entire generation of Bangladeshi contemporary artists.
Download or read book The Grace of Four Moons written by Pravina Shukla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.
Download or read book The Individual and Tradition written by Ray Cashman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition. Leading scholars in folklore studies consider how the field has addressed the connections between performer and tradition and examine theoretical issues involved in fieldwork and the analysis and dissemination of scholarship in the context of relationships with the performers. Honoring Henry Glassie and his remarkable contributions to the field of folklore, these vivid case studies exemplify the best of performer-centered ethnography.
Download or read book Bangladesh Art written by Syed Manzoorul Islam and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clay Art As in Bangladesh written by Mohammed Milu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terracotta, often mistaken as clay tiles, is actually baked earth (pora maati). There are specific themes and subjects based on which terracotta art is produced. A variety of items is made of terracotta - plaques, wall tiles, lamps, pitchers, flower vase, pottery, coin bank, candle-stands, dolls, and more. The designs of these burnt clay products reflect folk tales, picture of everyday life, artistic symbols denoting peace, love and understanding. In Bangladesh, some of the most contemporary and prominent pieces of terracotta art are dominant on plaques and murals portraying our Liberation War-or rural Bangladesh depicting many birds, fish and animals and agricultural activities. Members of the potters' community, known in Bangla as kumars (formally known as kumbhokars) who usually bear the title Pal, are generally found in large settlements in mrit pollis (potters' villages) across the country. Terracotta artists say, although this art is one of the oldest in the sub-continent and was spread out across the whole of this country, is practised in only a few prominent localities today - Dhamrai, Shimulia, Kagojipara, Kakran in Savar; Baufol in Barisal; Shariatpur; Mirzapore in Tangail; Rayer Bazar in Dhaka (almost extinct) and a few other remaining places in the country where pottery villages exist. This art was practised in Bengal from the earliest through early medieval to medieval times and even persisted in Hindu monuments till the mid-nineteenth century. It was found in the earliest civilisations like Harappa and Mohenjodaro. The Vishnupur (17th century) temple of (West Bengal) and Kantaji's temple (18th century) of Dinajpur are the finest examples of this form in this region. Ancient terracotta murals are found in their finest forms in Paharpur, Mahasthangarh and Maynamati dating back from the 6th century to as far back as 2000 A.D. Some plaques depicting ladies with exotic hairdo found in Mahasthangarh throw enough light on the affluence and elegance of the people inhabiting the region. Most recent specimen of the art can be found in Pabna, Jessore, Faridpur, Rajshahi, Barisal and some other places in Bangladesh. The clay which is used are derived from Barisal and Savar called Doash and Etel maati referred to as primary and secondary clay, amalgamated in a mixture, often called common clay. These clays can withstand high temperature when inside the furnace and make the best quality of products. Other potters use clay from different parts of the country. Terracotta artisans say that a type of white clay is collected from Netrokona, reddish clay from Baufol Barisal and pinkish clay which comes from Tangail and these different soils produce different types of products and add their own texture and colour to the items after baking. The whole process can be explained like this: these different types of clay used for making terracotta items are collected from different regional locations. The assorted materials are mixed proportionately and dried under the hot sun so as to allow any sort of moisture that may be present in it to evaporate. Then, the mixture of this wet clay is filtered through a fine sieve to remove pebbles, dirt or even rice grains.
Download or read book The Potter s Art written by Henry Glassie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations--relations between nature and culture, between the individual and society, between utility and beauty. Governed by desire, the artist's work answers questions of value. Is nature favored, or culture? Are individual needs or social needs more important? Do utilitarian or aesthetic concerns dominate in the transformation of nature?" --from the Introduction The Potter's Art discusses and illustrates the work of modern masters of traditional ceramics from Bangladesh, Sweden, various parts of the United States, Turkey, and Japan. It will appeal to anyone interested in pottery and the study of folklore and folk art. Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore and Co-director of Turkish Studies at Indiana University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute; he has also served as President of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and of the American Folklore Society. Material Culture--Henry Glassie, George Jevremovic, and William T. Sumner, editors (Note: there is an accent egue on the c Jevremovic) Contents: The Potter's Art Bangladesh Sweden Georgia Acoma Turkey Japan Hagi Work in the Clay Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Download or read book South Asian Folklore written by Peter Claus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.
Download or read book Popular Culture written by Frank Hoffmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions while examining world-changing social movements. You will go on a journey through time, exploring the cultures of the world, venturing from cavespace to tomb space, to temple space, then medieval space, to modern space and post-modern epochs, and finally to cyberspace. While moving through cultural history, you will explore such stories and discoveries as: the 1991 discovery of Oetzi the Ice Man, who is 5,300 years old the legends of the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Americans who or what turned on the light to the Dark Ages the impact of René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am,” and the inspiration of the Enlightenment modernism and the determination to be up to date the incredible 20th century that McDonaldized the world postmodernism and its technology cyburbia and globalism Popular Culture contains a wide collection of stories covering cultural phenomena such as Tutmania, the Crusades, the Ninja Turtles, Hamburger University, elitism, Shakespeare, America's Frontier Thesis, The Global Village, and the coming millennium. You will be intrigued by the plethora of fascinating links that Professor Fishwick makes in this comprehensive guide to ever-changing popular culture.
