11 Painting Stories and Filming Change

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: A Gathering and a Volume ix
4. Notes on Conventions xv
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE History
7. Map 24
8. 1 From Marriage Genealogies to Archer’s Photos 25
9. 2 Transforming Craft into Art 41
10. 3 The Mithila Art Institute 61
11. 4 The Politics of Mithila Painting 80
12. PART TWO Artists
13. 5 My Life as an Artist 105
14. 6 Personal Experience, Social Norms, and Mithila Painting 115
15. 7 The Aesthetics of Equality in Marriage 132
16. 8 Color, Rhythm, and Repetition in Paintings by Dalit Women of Mithila 160
17. 9 Trees of the Honey Forest 180
18. PART THREE Narratives
19. 10 Representing Sita’s Life 205
20. 11 Painting Stories and Filming Change 225
21. 12 The Murder of Phool Jha in Krishnanand Jha’s Drawings 242
22. PART FOUR Reception
23. 13 Exhibiting Mithila Art in Its Cultural Context 261
24. 14 The Transnational Field of Mithila Paintings in the 1970s 272
25. 15. Mithila Painting as Vernacular Expression in the Contemporary Art World 288
26. Glossary 303
27. References 307
28. List of Contributors 321
29. Index 325