Dutta, Krishna

Image-makers of Kumortuli and the Durga Puja Festival - New Delhi Niyogi Books 2015 - 136 17.88 x 0.99 x 21.84 cm

This book is a tribute to the image-makers of Kumortuli, as well as a social and cultural account of Durga Puja—the most important religious festival of Bengal. Through vivid photographs and absorbing text, the book captures Kolkata’s spirit of artistic creativity and spiritual ecstasy, embodied in these ephemeral constructs of clay, straw and bamboo. It also sensitively documents Bengal’s unique and most enduring cultural heritage of image worship.

9789385285134


Art
Craft
Durga Puja
Image making
India
Kolkata
Kumors
West Bengal

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