Flavours of the Arts

Aubert, Laurent [Hrsg.]:
Flavours of the Arts : from Mughal India to Bollywood / ed. by Laurent Aubert. - Gollion : Infolio éditions ; Genève : Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, 2011. - 157 S. : überw. Ill.
ISBN 978-2-88474-246-7
CHF 39,00
DDC: 700.954
Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, vom 27. Mai 2011 bis 18 März 2012

Französische Fassung: La saveur des arts : de l'Inde moghole à Bollywood / dir. par Laurent Aubert. - Gollion : Infolio éditions ; Genève : Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, 2011. - ISBN 978-2-88474-242-9

Beschreibung
With its prodigious range of art forms, India fascinates and often disconcerts people who try to pierce its mysteries. This pertinently illustrated book focuses on the close relationship between music, painting and film in northern Indian.
   Classical India produced many treatises on aesthetics, expounding or commenting on the theory of the nine flavours (nava rasa), the emotions inherent in all forms of artistic expression. It was the court artists and musicians of the Mughal Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries who developed the most refined applications of this theory, as is shown by the miniatures and musical instruments presented in the first part of this catalogue.
   Are there equivalents to be found in contemporary Indian art and music, in both rural and urban environments? How do village artists in West Bengal see these "classical" models, when they reinterpret the great myths of the past in their paintings or tell those of the modern world in their own fashion? And what debt do the famous Bollywood film productions owe to the ancient theory of the rasa?
   These questions are part of a fundamental anthropological exploration of cultural identity and the way relationships are constructed between art and society, tradition and modernity, in all countries and in all periods. Rich and varied in its scope, this intriguing book invites readers to taste the many flavours of Indian arts. [Musée d'Ethnographie]

Inhalt
Foreword / Boris Wastiau, director of the MEG. 8
Preface / Laurent Aubert, exhibition curator. 10
1. A Cuisine of the Arts / Dominique Wohlschlag. 18
2. The Flavour of Emotions in Indian Aesthetics / Laurent Aubert. 32
3. Visualised Music: rāga, rāgadhyāna and rāgamālā / Jorrit Britschgi. 48
4. Stringed Instruments in Northern India / Philippe Bruguière. 60
5. Living with Pictures. Study, Film and Life in Naya (West Bengal) / Lina Fruzzetti & Ákos Östör. 78
6. The Love of Beauty. A Quest through Song, Dance and Painting / Parvathy Baul. 96
7. Kinetics of the Emotions. Mood Freezing and Other Acting Exercises / Emmanuel Grimaud. 122
8. Music with a Local Flavour. The Example of Keralan Regional Cinema / Christine Guillebaud. 144
Bibliography. 155

Herausgeber
LAURENT AUBERT, qui dirige cette publication, est conservateur au Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG) et directeur des Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie, un institut dédié à la diffusion des musiques du monde à Genève.

Quellen: Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève; Ateliers d'Ethnomusicologie; Infolio éditions