Indian Ritual Art

About the Book

The book Indian Ritual Art not only documents the vanishing tradition of vernacular art practiced in day to day life of common people of India but unfurls forgotten potential moral and cultural values that were interwoven with simplistic aesthetic perception without any bourgeois utopia of creativity. The motif used in the simple art form and pattern bear great symbolic meaning towards the integrity and dignity of the social fabric that struggling hard to sustain even in fast converting industrial society. These visual formulae are telltale of the intensive humanistic relationship of organic life with environment and nature, amicable human behavior with cyclic order of seasons and sacraments, all demolishing the flimsy line between mundane and eternal. Every motif as an intensifier furthers the continuity of tale from one to all.