Lessons from hell : printing and punishment in India / Christopher Pinney.
- Pinney, Christopher
- Date:
- 2018
- Books
About this work
Description
"This book documents the growth of printed images of punishments in hell from 19th and 20th century India. It explores what happens when new technologies of image reproduction collide with deep cultural traditions, and traces the sources of the iconography and formal visual structures that found new expression in late 19th century chromolithographs showing deeds and their punishments"--inside front cover.
Publication/Creation
Mumbai : The Marg Foundation, 2018.
Physical description
135 pages : colour illustrations ; 32 cm
Notes
Includes images of works in the Wellcome Collection: The trial of soul after death in the court of Yama, chromolithograph, page 31, and Snakes and ladders (game of heaven & hell), page 39.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineZH.23Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9383243201
- 9789383243204