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Kalighat Paintings: A National Artifact, the Folk and Counter Representation in the Making of Modern Art in Bengal

Anuja Mukherjee

M.A in Anthropology student, Columbia University New York City. Email: anuja.m@columbia.edu

  Volume 4, Number 1, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/cjad.41.v4n104

Abstract

Kalighat Patachitra is a style of paintings that came into being in nineteenth century Calcutta after which its active practice died out by the beginning of the next century. My detailed focus in this article will be Kalighat Paintings and its emplotment in the question of national identity, with the loss of ritual importance, defamation and eventual museumization.

Keywords: Kalighat Patachitra, fragmentation, nationalism, folk art.

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