TY - BOOK AU - Dutta, Krishna TI - Image-makers of Kumortuli and the Durga Puja Festival SN - 9789385285134 U1 - ARTS PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Niyogi Books KW - Art KW - Craft KW - Durga Puja KW - Image making KW - India KW - Kolkata KW - Kumors KW - West Bengal N1 - 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 ER -