Dinanath Pathy
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A 360 degree view of Odisha from pre-historic to the present era is now available in a book-Imaging Odisha.
The book has been released in two volumes and depicts the excellence of Odisha in the fields of Art, Culture, Traditions, Literature, Festivals and many more. As many as 60 research scholars of various backgrounds who have known and experienced Odisha have put in their labour to bring out the book.
Padmashri Hermann Kulke is the chief editor of this ...
This book appreciates the Gitagovinda from the perspective of the cultural traditions of Odisha. Here readers will find facts, arguments and postulations related to the history, legends, paintings, sculptures, textiles, music, dance, literature and poetry of a living tradition.
This micro art history study documents in its first part all known samples of anasara pati-paintings, i.e. annually produced pictures on cloth which serve as temporary replacements for the then absent wooden icons in the temples of Lord Jagannatha in Puri and South Orissa. Since the iconography of this type of ritualistic paintings is defined by tradition and has to be strictly adhered to by the painters, changes in iconographic details and even stylistic ...
Memories of artist and litterateur Dinanath Pathy’s book Digapahandira Drawing Mastre, that had won the Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award, have come afresh in the minds of readers as an English translation of the same was launched recently.
An autobiographical account of the veteran artist and arts historian’s association with his village Digapahandi in Ganjam district, the book is titled The Drawing Master of Digapahandi. Niranjan Mohanty, who died in ...
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Contemporary Art of Orissa traces the evolution of art from the nineteenth century up to the last decade of the twentieth century. It focuses on a continuing tradition and its gradual transformation into an international art mode reflecting in it the contemporary nuances and aspirations. The tradition of temple murals, palmleaf manuscript paintings, pata paintings, Saura tribal paintings and Osakothi folk paintings were the factors ...
Essence of Orissan Paintings focuses on the fundamentals of the Orissan painting tradition and its relation to sculpture and Oriya literature. It is the result of holistic study and therefore relevant to the understanding of Orissan pictorial art. This book is unique in the sense, it reveals a comprehensive rudimentary of a regional pictorial vocabulary.
This publication for the first time focuses on a local art tradition in Orissa, vividly documented and substantiated with visuals. The archaic cult of Jagannatha that upholds Oriya nationalism and claims to be the central focus of Orissan art and culture mirrors in this study with an extra tinge of local flavour - the essence of this book. The readers will discover a socio-religio-cultural structure supporting an art tradition in the Jagannatha temple of ...
The essays in commemoration of Pandit Nilamani Mishra, an eminent Scholar and Curator of Sanskrit Palmleaf manuscripts in the Orissa State Museum cover a wide range of researches from Art to Philosophy, History to Literature, Archaeology to Anthropology and Religion to Social Sciences. Noted scholars from Orissa and outside through their specific contributions have focused on different Cultural Studies. This volume in its totality makes a meaningful presence in ...
The lively and fascinating wall painting traditions of Sauras, one of the primitive tribes of Orissa get an art-historical focus in this publication. The study brings to light several Saura painters, their paintings and styles. Profusely illustrated with monochrome and multicolour reproductions, schematic drawings, motif-style charts, map and house plan, the book brings out the richness of the Saura icons and its varied manifestations.
The research papers included in this compilation offer a wide spectrum of thoughtful writing on visual and performing arts ranging from Silpa textual studies, Odissi dance, tribal, rural arts to contemporary painting and sculpture. The anthology also mirrors its concern about child centered art education and presents alternative modules for its implementation. Written in a lucid style it reflects the scholarly insight, critical vision and firm conviction of an ...
This monograph Murals for Goddesses and Gods is a magnificent document of India's ritual painting, based on systematic study of the Osakothi (osa penance, kothi sacred space) murals or Orissa. It explores the rare rich and meaningful and fast disappearing ritual art of mural painting. The antiquity of this art can be traced to the prehistoric rock-cave paintings of Mirzapur, Singhapuri, Bhimbetka, Jhiri, and elsewhere in India. A close parallel is seen in the ...
This is a pioneering study on the six contemporary painters of Orissa with an introduction that ponders the ontology and history of the Orissan school of painting. The six representative painters : Dinanath Pathy, Chandrasekhar Rao, Siba Panigrahi, Kashinath Jena, D. Narayan Rao and Ramahari Jena, though very often widely divergent in character and expression, nevertheless present an organic cohesiveness and a world view which traditionally as well as by latest ...
Rethinking Odissi is not a treatise to be studied as a dance text. Nor is it a technical dance manual meant only for teachers and students of dance. It does not offer paradigms or a chronological history of the dance form. Using a range of theories and approaches, both Eastern and western, the book demonstrates how a cultural form of thinking and knowledge, This study aspires to provide intellectual stimulation and initiate a dialogue and a debate on Odissi. The ...