Siglio | ISBN:0979956277 | File Type: PDF, 111 pages | File size: 32.Mb | Oct. 31st, 2011
Buddhist Rituals Buddhist Practices: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan This collection of rare abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck Andre Jamme stumbled on a small catalogue of Tantric art at a aris bookseller s stall The volume included writings by Octavio az and Henri Michaux and Jamme became fascinated by the images affinity with modern art and poetry He read voraciously and even journeyed to India searching in vain for Tantric practitioners until a bus accident on the road to Jaipur sent him home to France with serious injuries When he returned a few years later he met a soothsayer who proclaimed that Jamme had now paid sufficient tribute to the goddess Shakti and required him to take a vow he must visit the tantrikas alone or only in the company of a loved one Since then Jamme has gained extraordinary access to very private communities of adepts and their intensely beautif works These contemporary anonymous drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Tantric art the geometric yantras or erotic illustrations of the Kama Sutra The progeny of seventeenth century illustrated religious treatises these drawings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of consciousness and are imbued with specific spiritual meanings e g spirals and arrows for energy an inverted triangle for Shakti A revelatory volume on this occluded genre of Indian art Tantra Song is a convergence of east and west the spiritual and the aesthetic the ancient and the modern Franck Andre Jamme is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry His translated workds by John Ashbery Charles Borkuis David Kelley and others include New Exercises Another Silent Attack The Recitation of Forgetting and Extracts of the Life of a Beetle He has collaborated on books with a number of artists including hilippe Favier Suzan Frecon Acharya Vyak and Hanns Schimansk A specialist in Art Brut Tantric and tribal art of India he has participated in exhibitions at Centre ompidou Beaux Art de aris and The Drawing Center among others
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