Tarakeswarer Taraka
By Aranya Sengupta
Price : Rs3,500.00 | $ 0.00
Published by : Aranya Sengupta
Pages : 92
Year : 2022
ISBN : 978-93-5636-765-4
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 picture book uses the codex format, delivered under a classic Graphic narrative featuring the most talked about murder scandal of colonial Bengal. Apart from tactile aesthetics of the classical letterpress, this book offers twenty one original woodcut images, manually printed from the blocks. This project was implemented with support from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), under the Arts Practice programme, made possible with Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.
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