Artistic labour in dance and painting
Revisiting the theory-practice debate via mimesis ( Anukrti ) and the abject body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12985652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Parul Dave Mukherji (Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-152 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian History and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1947-2498 • E-ISSN: 1947-2501 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19472498.2022.2142898 |
| OpenAlex | W4309073953 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article will critically explore how the intersection of mimesis and labour may open up another perspective on the much-theorized relationship between practice (prayoga) and theory (śāstra) in dance and painting. Labour or śrama, a loaded term by itself, will be taken in its complex sense of not only involving labour as skill that informs acts of painting, acting-dancing but also as a thematic of representation. Interspersed into these two senses is ritual labour or the labour involving acts of propitiating the divine – a domain not sufficiently thought out beyond the truism that religion pervades all spheres of Indic life. What this mode of inquiry aims to bring out is a tense relationship between manual/artistic labour and ritual labour both as a site of complicity and conflict amongst the actor-dancers and the authors of the treatises
Aesthetics · Art · Complicity · Dance · Painting · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |