Contending Indian Art Worlds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helle Bundgaard (0000-0002-4020-9912, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 321-337 |
| Publication date | 1999-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135918359900400305 |
| OpenAlex | W2336003930 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article argues that the notion of a singular art world will have to give way to that of 'art worlds', the point being, as Myers has suggested, 'to imagine conditions of cultural heterogeneity, rather than those of consensus, as the common situation of cultural interpretation' (1994: 13). The argument is based on a detailed analysis of the contending practice and discourse of two - of the several - groups involved with a traditional craft in coastal Orissa. More specifically the article explores the relation between the pragmatic concerns of patta chitra painters regarding their work on the one hand and the Indian art elite's priorities on the other. A central issue is the way the painters, as agents, seek to influence the reality in which they live. The specific case of a painter, who contextually has reframed Sanskrit extracts in order to secure his position as an acknowledged artist, illustrates the creative aspect of agency
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Craft · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Order (exchange · Painting · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy
The Artworld
The cultural biography of things
Ethnic and Tourist Arts
Introduction
Puri Paintings
Beyond the Intentional Fallacy
A Seventeenth Century Ritual Pata from the Jagannatha Temple, Puri
Local Discourses on Orissan Patta Paintings
An Anthropology of Anthropology
Criticizing and Evaluating the Visual Arts in India
Unstable Images and Second Skins
Reading Material Culture
External Inducement and Non-Westernization in the Uses of the ◊ Asheninka Cushma
Vogel's Net
ART/artifact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |