Rajasthani Painters Bagta And Chokha

Author : Milo Cleveland Beach,Rāwat Nahar Singh
Publisher : Paul Holberton Pub
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 3907077172

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Rajasthani Painters Bagta and Chokha by Milo Cleveland Beach,Rāwat Nahar Singh Pdf

"This is a study centered on two artists within one family, but it has also explored a network of patronage among the successive rulers of one small territory subordinate to a major ruling house. It has led us to explore new, previously unrecognized centers of painting (Karera and Gyangarh, for example) and to realize that most powerful ruling courts did not necessarily provide the most informed, or the most productive, patronage. Paintings made for the Chundawats of Devgarh are for more interesting and innovative than the works made contemporaneously in Udaipur. But it is now clear that , even within one family of patrons, tastes can be quite distinct, as can the stylistic affiliations of the artists that various family members employed. It seems clear that Rajasthani painting will richly reward further attention." -- From the Afterword

Author : Crispin Branfoot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838608972

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Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals by Crispin Branfoot Pdf

One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in the early seventeenth century of portraits of identifiable individuals, unprecedented in both South Asia and the Islamic world. Appearing at a time of increasing contact between Europe and Asia, portraits from the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan are among the best-known paintings produced in South Asia. In the following centuries portraiture became more widespread in the visual culture of South Asia, especially in the rich and varied traditions of painting, but also in sculpture and later prints and photography. This collection seeks to understand the intended purpose of a range of portrait traditions in South Asia and how their style, setting and representation may have advanced a range of aesthetic, social and political functions. The chapters range across a wide historical period, exploring ideals of portraiture in Sanskrit and Persian literature, the emergence and political symbolism of Mughal portraiture, through to the paintings of the Rajput courts, sculpture in Tamil temples and the transformation of portraiture in colonial north India and post-independence Pakistan. This specially commissioned collection of studies from a strong list of established scholars and rising stars makes a significant contribution to South Asian history, art and visual culture.

Author : John Guy,Jorrit Britschgi
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Painters
ISBN : 9781588394309

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Wonder of the Age by John Guy,Jorrit Britschgi Pdf

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.

Author : Dipti Khera
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780691201849

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The Place of Many Moods by Dipti Khera Pdf

"India retains one of the richest painting traditions in the history of global visual culture, one that both parallels aspects of European traditions and also diverges from it. While European artists venerated the landscape and landscape paintings, it is rare in the Indian tradition to find depictions of landscapes for their sheer beauty and mood, without religious or courtly significance. There is one glorious exception: Painters from the city of Udaipur in Northwestern India specialized in depicting places, including the courtly worlds and cities of rajas, sacred landscapes of many gods, and bazaars bustling with merchants, pilgrims, and craftsmen. Their court paintings and painted invitation scrolls displayed rich geographic information, notions of territory, and the bhāva, or feel, emotion, and mood of a place. This is the first book to use artistic representations of place to trace the major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts in South Asia over the long eighteenth century. While James Tod, the first British colonial agent based in Udaipur, established the region's reputation as a principality in a state of political and cultural deterioration, author Dipti Khera uses these paintings to suggest a counter-narrative of a prosperous region with beautiful and bountiful cities, and plentiful rains and lakes. She explores the perspectives of courtly communities, merchants, pilgrims, monks, laypeople, and officers, and the British East India Company's officers, explorers, and artists. Throughout, she draws new conclusions about the region's intellectual and artistic practices, and its shifts in political authority, mobility, and urbanity"--

Author : Amit Ambalal,Kalyan Krishna,Emilia Bachrach,Tryna Lyons,Anita Shah
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300214727

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Gates of the Lord by Amit Ambalal,Kalyan Krishna,Emilia Bachrach,Tryna Lyons,Anita Shah Pdf

The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the fifteenth century, possesses a unique culture--reaching back centuries and still vital today--in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This important volume, illustrated with more than one hundred vivid images, offers a new, in-depth look at the Pushtimarg and its rich aesthetic traditions, which are largely unknown outside of South Asia. Original essays by eminent scholars of Indian art focus on the style of worship, patterns of patronage, and artistic heritage that generated pichvais, large paintings on cloth designed to hang in temples, as well as other paintings for the Pushtimarg. In this expansive study, the authors deftly examine how pichvais were and still are used in the seasonal and daily veneration of Shrinathji, an aspect of Krishna as a child who is the chief deity of the temple town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan. Gates of the Lord introduces readers not only to the visual world of the Pushtimarg, but also to the spirit of Nathdwara.

Author : Cynthia Talbot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107118560

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The Last Hindu Emperor by Cynthia Talbot Pdf

This book traces the genealogy and historical memory of the twelfth-century ruler Prithviraj Chauhan, remembered as the 'last Hindu Emperor of India'.

Author : Terence McInerney,Steven M. Kossak,Navina Najat Haidar
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588395900

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Divine Pleasures by Terence McInerney,Steven M. Kossak,Navina Najat Haidar Pdf

As one of the finest holdings of Indian art in the West, the Kronos Collections are particularly distinguished for paintings made between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries for the Indian royal courts in Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills. These outstanding works, many of which are published and illustrated here for the first time, are characterized by their brilliant colors and vivid, powerful depictions of scenes from Hindu epics, mystical legends, and courtly life. They also present a new way of seeking the divine through a form of personal devotion—known as bhakti—that had permeated India’s Hindu community. While explaining the gods, demons, lovers, fantastical creatures, and mystical symbols that are central to literature and worship, this publication celebrates the diverse styles and traditions of Indian painting. Divine Pleasures features an informative entry for each work and two essays by scholar Terence McInerney that together outline the history of Indian painting and the Rajput courts, providing fresh insights and interpretations. Also included are a personal essay by expert and collector Steven M. Kossak and an examination of Hindu epic and myth in Mughal painting, which lays important foundations for Rajput painting, by curator Navina Najat Haidar. Through their research and observations, the authors deepen our understanding and underscore the significance of Indian painting. Divine Pleasures presents a nuanced view of a way of life intimately tied to the seasons, the arts, and the divine.

Author : Rosemary Crill,Kapil Jariwala
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Portrait painting, Indic
ISBN : 8189995375

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The Indian Portrait, 1560-1860 by Rosemary Crill,Kapil Jariwala Pdf

The role of the portrait in India between 1560 and 1860 served as an official chronicle or eye-witness account, as a means of revealing the intimate moments of everyday life, and as a tool for propaganda. Yet the proliferation and mastery of Indian portraiture in the Mughal and Rajput courts brought a new level of artistry and style to the genre.

Author : Rebecca M. Brown,Deborah S. Hutton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119019534

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A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture by Rebecca M. Brown,Deborah S. Hutton Pdf

A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture presents a collection of 26 original essays from top scholars in the field that explore and critically examine various aspects of Asian art and architectural history. Brings together top international scholars of Asian art and architecture Represents the current state of the field while highlighting the wide range of scholarly approaches to Asian Art Features work on Korea and Southeast Asia, two regions often overlooked in a field that is often defined as India-China-Japan Explores the influences on Asian art of global and colonial interactions and of the diasporic communities in the US and UK Showcases a wide range of topics including imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.

Author : Anil Relia,Sonika Soni
Publisher : Archer Art Gallery
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788193171806

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The Indian Portrait - 8 by Anil Relia,Sonika Soni Pdf

This exhibition catalogue covers the art of portraiture which flourished in the royal courts of Rajasthan. Rajput rulers, warriors, heads of religious institutions and rich and influential merchants were the major patrons or art and had their portraits painted for visual documentation, political gifts and also as valuable art objects.

Author : Joanna Williams,Joanna Gottfried Williams
Publisher : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015069320656

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Kingdom of the Sun by Joanna Williams,Joanna Gottfried Williams Pdf

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Princes, Palaces, and Passion: The Art of India's Mewar Kingdom, presented at the Asian Art Museum- Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture in San Francisco, February 2 through April 29, 2007.

Author : Roda Ahluwalia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Krishna (Hindu deity)
ISBN : UOM:39015080549283

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Rajput Painting by Roda Ahluwalia Pdf

Author : B N Goswamy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351188629

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The Spirit of Indian Painting by B N Goswamy Pdf

This magnificent, lavishly illustrated book by India’s most eminent and perceptive art historian, B.N. Goswamy, will open readers’ eyes to the wonders of Indian painting, and show them new ways of seeing and appreciating art. An illuminating introductory essay, ‘A Layered World’, explains the themes and emotions that inspired Indian painters, the values and influences that shaped their work, and the unique ways in which they depicted time and space. It describes, too, the characteristics of the different regional styles, the relationship between patrons and painters, the milieu in which they created their works, and the tools and techniques the painters used. The second part of this book consists of ‘Close Encounters with 101 Great Works’. Carefully selected by Prof. Goswamy and spanning nearly a thousand years, these works range from Jain manuscripts, and Rajasthani, Mughal, Pahari and Deccani miniatures, to Company School paintings. His description and analysis of these works unlock the treasures that lie within them and show us how to ‘read’ each painting, as he points out its finest features, explains its visual vocabulary and symbolism, and recounts the story, legend or event that inspired it. Combining deep scholarship with great storytelling, this is a book of enduring value that will both educate and delight the reader. It is destined to become a classic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : South Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015062011849

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South Asian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Daljeet,Daljeet Kaur,P. C. Jain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Miniature painting, Indic
ISBN : UOM:39015081839857

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Indian Miniature Painting by Dr. Daljeet,Daljeet Kaur,P. C. Jain Pdf

This book comes out with a new perception of Indian miniature art. The book examines not merely its body but also its inherent soul, underlying unity, ethos it represents and factors that shaped it across the period from the seventh century onwards.