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'This book brings to the reader the best of Tasveerghar, a trans-national digital network of South-Asian popular visual culture. A visual treat, the book is a collection of the 'popular' forms of art, which include posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisement and other forms of street and bazaar art. Presenting 'other' kinds of art, the kinds that exist outside art-galleries, Tasveerghar provides an insight into the ...
This book brings to the reader the best of Tasveerghar, a trans-national digital network of South-Asian popular visual culture. A visual treat, the book is a collection of the popular forms of art which include posters, calendar art pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings advertisement and other forms of street and bazaar art. Presenting other kinds of art, the kinds that exist outside art-galleries Tasveerghar provides an insight into the throbbing ...
The discourse on media and cultural change in India has largely revolved around direct impact theory supplemented by anecdotal reportage or heavily empirical approaches. While not denying the legitimacy of such debates, this volume provides a different perspective regarding cultural change and the influence of audio-visual media in India. The contributors view media as not only a means of communication or a mode of dissemination, but as an ecology of images and ...