Images for the Gods. Rock Art and Tribal Art in Central India.
Wandering| N° d'inventaire | 17564 |
| Format | 22.5 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 142 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Arles, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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Thanks to a field study lasting many weeks over several years in Central India (Madhya Pradesh State), authors Jean Clottes and Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak were able to provide us with this richly illustrated, unique account of the cave art of this region of the world. These often spectacular paintings cover a vast period, from approximately 10,000 years ago to historical periods. The major interest of this rock art: located in remote jungles, its cultural and natural context has been largely preserved, which has become very rare in the world. It is thus possible to consider what happened in the local tribes, to discover the persistence of ancestral artistic traditions and to explain the underlying reasons for this. The research and discoveries within the tribes to which the authors had exceptional access (Korkus, Gonds, Kols, Bhils) focused on two major points: the traditional art forms still in use today, the ceremonies, with the deposit of offerings, still practiced in certain painted shelters, which no one suspected until then. Detailed, completely new testimonies were collected on these disappearing practices. What emerges most clearly is the beneficial power of images. These are indeed images for the spirits and for the gods, but also and undoubtedly above all for the people of the tribes themselves who seek protection through their drawings and the practices accompanying them.
Thanks to a field study lasting many weeks over several years in Central India (Madhya Pradesh State), authors Jean Clottes and Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak were able to provide us with this richly illustrated, unique account of the cave art of this region of the world. These often spectacular paintings cover a vast period, from approximately 10,000 years ago to historical periods. The major interest of this rock art: located in remote jungles, its cultural and natural context has been largely preserved, which has become very rare in the world. It is thus possible to consider what happened in the local tribes, to discover the persistence of ancestral artistic traditions and to explain the underlying reasons for this. The research and discoveries within the tribes to which the authors had exceptional access (Korkus, Gonds, Kols, Bhils) focused on two major points: the traditional art forms still in use today, the ceremonies, with the deposit of offerings, still practiced in certain painted shelters, which no one suspected until then. Detailed, completely new testimonies were collected on these disappearing practices. What emerges most clearly is the beneficial power of images. These are indeed images for the spirits and for the gods, but also and undoubtedly above all for the people of the tribes themselves who seek protection through their drawings and the practices accompanying them.