'The Magic Makers', not a mere catalogue, delves deep into each artifact and explores its underlying essence, metaphoric meaning, spiritual connotation, and the message that it reveals. It is truly an aesthetic tool that leads the mind deep into an object and once the two begin conversing withdraws. Detailed captions encompassing not mere technical data but also each object's soul apart, 'The Magic Makers' comprises well researched introductory notes, analyzing each aspect of folk art, seeking to classify them into various groups and discovering each group's distinctive character, aesthetic merit, iconographic models and perception of life, something rarely seen in books on folk art, and in catalogues, perhaps never.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P C Jain
P.C. Jain obtained his Master's degree in economics, History and Political Science from Agra University, and Ph.D. on the History of the Hindu Society in Pre-mutiny nineteenth century. He is a versatile genius and widely-read scholar. He is head of the Department of History in a P.G. College of the Rohilkhand University. Dr. Jain has contributed many articles to reputed journals. He has attended various state and national conferences on social sciences. He is widely travelled and has minutely studied the life and manners of the people of different places from a sociological as well as historical point of view. At present he is engaged in rewriting the regional and social history of the present state of Uttar Pradesh.
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