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082			_aVSCL _bPAT
100			_aPathy, Dinanath
245		0	_aIn the Absence of Jagannatha
260			_a. _bNiyogi Books _c2012
300			_a116: ill. _c23.85 x 1.73 x 30.73 cm _rHardbound
504			_aThis “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 features can only be minimal. Nevertheless, minor deviations occur. By carefully viewing these paintings, the exact range of variations, the scope for idiosyncrasies, personal liberties and preferences and the perpetuation of changes in the production of these religious pictures can be pointed out in the face of an ideology advocated and severely controlled by temple authorities that doesn’t permit something like “change” but believes in the permanence of eternal values and forms. In the second part of the book the authors reconstruct the history of anasara-pictures. Here the focus is on why two different iconographies for the Jagannatha triad co-exist and under what conditions these painted “classical” triptychs may have been invented and why they continue to flourish.
650			_aAnasara Pati Paintings
650			_aIconography
650			_aJagannath Puri
650			_aPaintings
650			_aVisual Culture
700			_a Fischer, Eberhard _eCo-author
942			_cBKS
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