Author : Jyotindra Jain
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt
ISBN 13 : 9789385360633
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)
Book Synopsis Jangarh Singh Shyam by : Jyotindra Jain
Download or read book Jangarh Singh Shyam written by Jyotindra Jain and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a study of the life and work of the Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam. 0Before any sound critical framework could be evolved around the phenomenal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam as the originator of an extraordinary individualistic idiom of painting, ruthless market forces regrettably came to dominate his art and Jangarh himself became their first casualty. While trying to finish a large commission at a museum in Japan under adverse circumstances, Jangarh committed suicide in 2001. He was 40.0The book probes the efficacy of extra-cultural interventions into an individual artist?s operative and relatively well-grounded indigenous cultural tradition, and asks how the latter interacts with the new, while intentionally reinventing itself. Equipped with a powerful sensibility and a profound nostalgia for the world of his native village of Patangarh that he left behind, Jangarh created, over two decades in Bhopal, a sea of paintings inhabited by gods and demons, shamans and priests, birds and animals?crabs, scorpions, lizards and crocodiles?as well as forests, trees and shrubbery. The entire realm that had remained latent in his mind?s eye over the years thus came to life, image by image, in response to the new and alluring space of paper, canvas or the expansive walls that he turned into a vast and unique conjuror?s archive?opening up a personal space from where to speak.
