Image-makers of Kumortuli and the Durga Puja Festival
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Niyogi Books 2015Description: 136 17.88 x 0.99 x 21.84 cmISBN:- 9789385285134
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3K | ARTS/DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00633 |
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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.