Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal
An introduction to the pictorial and photographic material in the documentation archive of the CSSSC
Tapati Guha Thakurta

Rs 200.00    £ 11.95    $ 17.95
ISBN 81 7046 207 X
48pp 25 b/w col. photos

The Hiteshranjan Sanyal Memorial Collection at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, is an archive of sources of the cultural history of modern Bengal. It consists of microfilmed printed texts as well as documentation of pictorial and photographic material.

In her introduction, the art historian Tapati Guha-Thakurta, takes us through the history of the various genres of art and photography in Bengal from around the middle of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th. She explains, in particular, the mix of canonical schools and styles and a variety of lesser-known popular images, often produced by anonymous artists or studios, that belong equally to the visual world's of Bengal's modernity.

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