Volume-I, Issue-IV, March 2025
Volume-I, Issue-IV, January, 2025 |
Received: 20.03.2025 | Send for Revised: 21.03.2025 | Revised Received: 25.03.2025 | Page No:958-964 |
| Accepted: 28.03.2025 | Published Online: 31.03.2025 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.04W.090 | |||
গ্রন্থচিত্রে অনন্য: দক্ষিণারঞ্জন মুখোপাধ্যায়ের ‘ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি’ ড. কাজল গাঙ্গুলী, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, চাপড়া বাঙ্গালঝি মহাবিদ্যালয়, নদিয়া, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Unique in Literary Illustration: Dakshinaranjan Mukhopadhyay's 'Thakurmar Jhuli Dr. Kajal Ganguli, Asst. Prof, Chapra Bangaljhi Mahavidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
By illustration, we generally understand the type of a picture drawn following a text. The writer expresses the thoughts of the mind in language, words are his medium. In the other ways the painter visualizes that thought in paint, brush, and line movement. Literature and painting are two mediums of art, they are different in nature, and their expression is also unique. Despite being two different temperaments, they often take refuge in each other and become fellow travelers in illustrated books. In this way, we witness the close proximity of the two art forms in an illustrated book. The connection between book illustrations and children's literature is inseparable and very close. This interdependent activity of reading books and looking at pictures began in the early 19th century. The printing of books according to the influence and style of European illustration gradually became a habit. In 1907, ‘Thakumar Jhuli’ was published by Bhattacharya & Sons at the initiative of Dinesh Chandra Sen. Dakshinaranjan himself never studied painting. Self-taught, Dakshinaranjan was skilled in pencil sketches and woodcuts. He used to draw the illustrations for his books himself. The book has a total of 84 images, both large and small. There is a three-color image on the frontispiece. Below the images, there are references to the sentences or sometimes phrases of the story based on the images. The book 'Thakumar Jhuli' is still appreciated in every Bengali household even after a century due to the combined artistic qualities of the story and the images. | ||
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