Dream Kitsch - Folk Art, Indigenous Media and `9/11

The Work of Pat in the Era of Electronic Transmission

Bibliographic Data

ID2390903
AuthorsBhaskar Mukhopadhyay (Goldsmiths College, UK, ,, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume13
Issue1
Pages5-34
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183507086218
OpenAlexW1991911663
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited20

This article explores the process of transmission of the image(s) of 9/11 through an ethnographic/art-historical examination of Bengali (Indian) pat (traditional scroll painting) made by a community of rural Indian artisans with little or no exposure to mass-media. It transpires that while the impact of mass-media - often held responsible for the extinction of `authentic' folk art - has been somewhat exaggerated, the argument put forward here is that the putative anteriority of a time before representation, is largely an illusion

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Bengali · Dream · Ethnography · Illusion · Indigenous · Kitsch · Mass media · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation

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