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Tarakeswarer Taraka

By Aranya Sengupta

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Published by  : Aranya Sengupta

Tarakeswarer Taraka (Othoba Elokeshi-Mohanta Upakhyan) is a limited-edition (print run 100) Artist's Book based on the infamous case of the Tarakeswar scandal of 1873 Hooghly. This book uses obsolete yet classical, handmade bookmaking techniques- ranging from hand-composed letterpress printing to direct printing from hand-carved woodcut matrixes. It is both an attempt to revisit the sheer possibilities of analog craftsmanship amidst the mechanical mass-production system and to understand the formative aesthetical realm of 19th Century Bengali book production system. This handcrafted... More

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