Pithorain the Time of Kings, Elephants and Art Dealers
Art and Social Change in Western India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Tilche (0000-0001-6398-3620, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2015.973255 |
| OpenAlex | W1972507392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article analyzes the transformation of Adivasi ("Tribal") painting in western India. Drawing on theoretical approaches to the agency of art objects, it shows how from being a divinity with the power to bring prosperity, the Pithora paintings have emerged as a form of art that can be interpreted as text, and placed within new canons of beauty and style. Here this transformation is shown to be altering the semiotic processes, and the social and divine relations that the painting involves. I argue that, in becoming meaningful, Pithora is acquiring a new kind of efficacy in its ability to mediate competing processes of social and religious change
Ancient history · Art · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Social change · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Routes
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Anthropology Art and Aesthetics
The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology
Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning
Gods in the Bazaar
Brokered livelihoods
Missionaries and their medicine
Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991
Unpacking Culture
The Spatiotemporal Transformations of Gawa Canoes
The Tribal Art of Middle India, a Personal Record
Tribal Chic
We Have Never Been Modern
Documenting the Image in Mithila Art
The Saffron Wave
Sanskritization
Traveling Objects
Representing Culture
Contested Meanings
The Idea of Indigenous People
Rathwa Pithoro
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |