The Promise (signed - last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Photographs: Vasantha Yogananthan
Text: Arshia Sattar
Publisher: chose commune
116 pages
Pictures: 63
Year: April 2017
ISBN: 979-10-96383-01-6
Comments: First edition of 1.000 copies, 24,5 x 30cm. Hardcover
The Promise is the second chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.
Since 2013, Yogananthan has been travelling from north to south India, retracing the itinerary of the epic’s heroes. Between fiction and reality, he deliberately blurs the lines through multiple aesthetic approaches: colour, hand-painted and illustrated photographs are interspersed with vernacular images to compose the layers of this timeless story.
This second book celebrates the love between Rama and Sita, the two main characters of the story. Their union, a festive but challenging event, is strongly embedded in the collective imagination in India and Nepal. The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time, and for Yoganathan’s book has been retold by Indian writer Arshia Sattar.
More books by Vasantha Yogananthan
-
Piémanson (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Early Times (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Exile (signed - last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Dandaka (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Howling Winds (signed, last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Afterlife (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 65 -
Afterlife (signed - review copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 65 52.00 -
Amma
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 88 -
Mystery Street (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 55
more books tagged »mythology« | >> see all
-
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
When Spider Kisses Fly (signed)
by James Kriszyk
Euro 25 -
Walls (signed)
by Lorenzo Castore
Euro 90 -
Phenomena
by Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, Tobias Selnaes Markussen
sold out -
One Picture Book Two #14 : Darshan (book + print)
by Manjari Sharma
Euro 99 -
The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer Cabin Edition
by Amani Willett
sold out
more books tagged »Indian« | >> see all
-
What Was Home
by Dileep Prakash
sold out -
The Way We Were (signed - last copy)
by Richard Bartholomew, Pablo Bartholomew
sold out -
Bhutan A Certain Modernity
by Serena Chopra
sold out -
Museum of Chance
by Dayanita Singh
Euro 55 -
Fragments from utopia (signed - last copy)
by Alison McCauley
sold out -
File Room
by Dayanita Singh
sold out
more books tagged »India« | >> see all
-
Into the Orient
by Marc Riboud
sold out -
OCEAN (signed)
by Martin Bogren
sold out -
Slant Rhymes
by Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
sold out -
Rented Rooms (signed)
by Torben Höke
sold out -
2224 Kolkata
by Pierre Defaix
Euro 49 -
India (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 190
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
The Promise (signed - last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Photographs: Vasantha Yogananthan
Text: Arshia Sattar
Publisher: chose commune
116 pages
Pictures: 63
Year: April 2017
ISBN: 979-10-96383-01-6
Comments: First edition of 1.000 copies, 24,5 x 30cm. Hardcover
The Promise is the second chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.
Since 2013, Yogananthan has been travelling from north to south India, retracing the itinerary of the epic’s heroes. Between fiction and reality, he deliberately blurs the lines through multiple aesthetic approaches: colour, hand-painted and illustrated photographs are interspersed with vernacular images to compose the layers of this timeless story.
This second book celebrates the love between Rama and Sita, the two main characters of the story. Their union, a festive but challenging event, is strongly embedded in the collective imagination in India and Nepal. The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time, and for Yoganathan’s book has been retold by Indian writer Arshia Sattar.
More books by Vasantha Yogananthan
-
Piémanson (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Early Times (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Exile (signed - last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Dandaka (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Howling Winds (signed, last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Afterlife (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 65 -
Afterlife (signed - review copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 65 52.00 -
Amma
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 88 -
Mystery Street (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 55
more books tagged »mythology« | >> see all
-
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
When Spider Kisses Fly (signed)
by James Kriszyk
Euro 25 -
Walls (signed)
by Lorenzo Castore
Euro 90 -
Phenomena
by Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, Tobias Selnaes Markussen
sold out -
One Picture Book Two #14 : Darshan (book + print)
by Manjari Sharma
Euro 99 -
The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer Cabin Edition
by Amani Willett
sold out
more books tagged »Indian« | >> see all
-
What Was Home
by Dileep Prakash
sold out -
The Way We Were (signed - last copy)
by Richard Bartholomew, Pablo Bartholomew
sold out -
Bhutan A Certain Modernity
by Serena Chopra
sold out -
Museum of Chance
by Dayanita Singh
Euro 55 -
Fragments from utopia (signed - last copy)
by Alison McCauley
sold out -
File Room
by Dayanita Singh
sold out
more books tagged »India« | >> see all
-
Into the Orient
by Marc Riboud
sold out -
OCEAN (signed)
by Martin Bogren
sold out -
Slant Rhymes
by Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
sold out -
Rented Rooms (signed)
by Torben Höke
sold out -
2224 Kolkata
by Pierre Defaix
Euro 49 -
India (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 190
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
The Promise (signed - last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Photographs: Vasantha Yogananthan
Text: Arshia Sattar
Publisher: chose commune
116 pages
Pictures: 63
Year: April 2017
ISBN: 979-10-96383-01-6
Comments: First edition of 1.000 copies, 24,5 x 30cm. Hardcover
The Promise is the second chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls, which offers a contemporary retelling of The Ramayana. A seven-chapter tale first recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana is one of the founding epics of Hindu mythology.
Since 2013, Yogananthan has been travelling from north to south India, retracing the itinerary of the epic’s heroes. Between fiction and reality, he deliberately blurs the lines through multiple aesthetic approaches: colour, hand-painted and illustrated photographs are interspersed with vernacular images to compose the layers of this timeless story.
This second book celebrates the love between Rama and Sita, the two main characters of the story. Their union, a festive but challenging event, is strongly embedded in the collective imagination in India and Nepal. The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted through time, and for Yoganathan’s book has been retold by Indian writer Arshia Sattar.
More books by Vasantha Yogananthan
-
Piémanson (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Early Times (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Exile (signed - last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Dandaka (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Howling Winds (signed, last copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold out -
Afterlife (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 65 -
Afterlife (signed - review copy)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 65 52.00 -
Amma
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 88 -
Mystery Street (signed)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
Euro 55
more books tagged »mythology« | >> see all
-
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
When Spider Kisses Fly (signed)
by James Kriszyk
Euro 25 -
Walls (signed)
by Lorenzo Castore
Euro 90 -
Phenomena
by Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, Tobias Selnaes Markussen
sold out -
One Picture Book Two #14 : Darshan (book + print)
by Manjari Sharma
Euro 99 -
The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer Cabin Edition
by Amani Willett
sold out
more books tagged »Indian« | >> see all
-
What Was Home
by Dileep Prakash
sold out -
The Way We Were (signed - last copy)
by Richard Bartholomew, Pablo Bartholomew
sold out -
Bhutan A Certain Modernity
by Serena Chopra
sold out -
Museum of Chance
by Dayanita Singh
Euro 55 -
Fragments from utopia (signed - last copy)
by Alison McCauley
sold out -
File Room
by Dayanita Singh
sold out
more books tagged »India« | >> see all
-
Into the Orient
by Marc Riboud
sold out -
OCEAN (signed)
by Martin Bogren
sold out -
Slant Rhymes
by Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
sold out -
Rented Rooms (signed)
by Torben Höke
sold out -
2224 Kolkata
by Pierre Defaix
Euro 49 -
India (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 190
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com