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Ramayana in focus: visual and performing arts of Asia

Ramayana in focus: visual and performing arts of Asia
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ISBN 9810859716 (pbk.)
9789810859718 (pbk.)
Title Ramayana in focus : visual and performing arts of Asia / [edited by] Gauri Parimoo Krishnan
Publisher Singapore : Asia Civilisations Museum, 2010
Physical desc. 231 p. ; ill. ; 33 cm.
Contents Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan -- Ramayana in literary traditions: a reflection. Sanskrit Ramayanas, Puranas and Rama Kavyas: a study in evolution and impact / Mandakranta Bose -- The story of Prince Rama in Japan: sources and transformations / Fabio Rambelli -- The advent and study of Ramayana in China / Zhang Xing -- Representation of Ramayana characters in visual traditions: a special focus. Rama the perfect man: whatever your faith / John and Mary Brocklington -- Looking at Ravana: images of Rama's foe in visual art and performance / Paula Richman -- Voices of the Ramayana women: the snare, old hag or damsel in distress? / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan -- Tataka, Shurpanakha and Kabandha: the forest runners of the Ramayana, 5th-13th centuries / Rachel Loizeau -- Representation of Ramayana in visual traditions: a rereading. A rare set of Pahari paintings based on the Ramacharita Manasa in the Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery, India / Ratan Parimoo -- Ramayana and related imagery in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Stephen Merkel -- Embroidered Ramayana episodes on Kantha textiles from Bengal / Pika Ghosh -- Dundubhi (Torapi) in Ramayana narratives of Cambodia and Thailand / Vittorio Roveda -- Representation of Ramayana in performing traditions: a review of practice -- Ramayana in the Malaysian Wayang Kulit Siam / Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof -- Ramayana: the roles of the great epic in visual and performing arts of Bali / I Made Bandem -- Recycling Rama: the Ramayana and symbols in puppetry and masks of West Java / Kathy Foley -- 20th century rediscovery of Asian universalism: Rabindranath Tagore's interpretation of the epics / Sugata Bose --20th century interpretation of the Ramayana in Indian dance: Rukmini Devi and Shanti Bardhan / Kapila Vatsyayan -- Ramayana and contemporary culture in Asia. Ramayana remix: two Hindi film songs as epic commentary / Philip Lutgendorf -- The fatal crossing: Sita's abduction in Valmiki's, Tulsidas' and the televised Ramayan / Heidi Pauwels -- Reconfiguring the feminine: the real, reel, and Riel life of Neang Seda / Julie Mehta -- The Ramayana in Southeast Asia: fostering regionalism or the state? / Marshall Clark.
Person as subject Valmiki -- Ramayana -- Illustrations
Vālmīki -- Adaptations
Subject Art, Indic
Rama (Hindu deity) -- Art
Added name(s) Krishnan, Gauri Parimoo
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