The abstract paintings shown here are not by Kazimir Malevich or Paul Klee but by Hindu tantra devotees from Indian cities like Jodhpur and Chomu, the anonymous heirs to a pictorial tradition that dates to the 1600s. Painted on salvaged paper and rarely measuring more than a foot high, the images possess a strange kinship with 20th-century art. And their agelessness cast a spell over Franck AndrĂ© Jamme, a French poet who nearly got himself killed tracking down these works across the deserts of Rajasthan…
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Tantric painting. from Tantra Song, by Franck Andre Jamme and translated by Michael Tweed, Siglio Press.
The abstract paintings shown here are not by Kazimir Malevich or Paul Klee but by Hindu tantra devotees from Indian...
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