Patua

Glossary

An artisanal community from the eastern states of the Indian subcontinent, primarily West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand, as well as parts of Bangladesh, known for their visual and performative tradition of narrative scroll-painting. Patua paintings rose to prominence with urban migration and colonial patronage and eventually became a subset of the nineteenth-century Kalighat school. The term is also used for the artwork produced by this community.

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Patua%newline%An artisanal community from the eastern states of the Indian subcontinent, primarily West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand, as well as parts of Bangladesh, known for their visual and performative tradition of narrative scroll-painting. Patua paintings rose to prominence with urban migration and colonial patronage and eventually became a subset of the nineteenth-century Kalighat school. The term is also used for the artwork produced by this community.

Chicago	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. “Patua”. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/patua/
MLA	“Patua.” MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/patua/. Accessed 27, April, 2024.
Harvard	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. (2022) Patua. [Online]. Available at: https://mapacademy.io/glossary/patua/. (Accessed: 27, April, 2024)