India's Mithila Painting

Auteur

Paula Richman, William H. Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions emerita at Oberlin College, has published multiple books and articles on the Indian Ramayana tradition. David L. Szanton, a social anthropologist and president of the Ethnic Arts Foundation, has curated Mithila painting exhibitions internationally. He is visiting professor at the Society, Work, and Politics Institute at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Texte du rabat

"This volume is the first to present a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the history and practitioners of Mithila painting. Among its contributors are anthropologists, scholars of art history and visual art, Mithila artists, and historians of Indian religions and gender studies"--