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Art of the Court of Bijapur (Contemporary Indian Studies)
by Deborah Hutton  Synopsis An exquisite study of Indo-Islamic art and courtly identity...
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Art of Tibet (World of Art)
by Robert Fisher Synopsis Now a province of the People's Republic of China, Tibet has produced some of the most fascinating and creative art in the world, from silk embroidery and textiles to painting, sculpture, and manuscripts. The art and spiritual life of the region are...
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Indiamodern: Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design
by Herbert Ypma Synopsis This compilation of modern Indian design and architecture, places it in the context of Indian history and traditions, showing how the "look" of India has provided inspiration for designers in the West, through the textiles, the ceramics and the intensity...
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Bollingen Series #0006: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
by Heinrich Zimmer Publisher Comments This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in...
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Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
by Kajri Jain Synopsis Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as calendar art or bazaar art, the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as...
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The Hindu Vision: Forms of the Formless
by Alistair Shearer Synopsis To the Hindu, the entire universe is a living being, and through the visual arts holistic awareness is made available to all. This book shows how Hindu imagery is a sophisticated iconography which conveys universal religious truths....
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Indian Painting: The Great Mural Tradition
by Mira Seth Publisher Comments Imagine if half the paintings of the Italian Renaissance had never been photographed until now. How great a revelation would a book presenting those works be? That is the perfect analog for the achievement that is Indian Painting: The Great Mural...
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New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India
by Betty Seid Synopsis Recent work by 24 artists has been selected to represent art-making in India today....
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Beasts of India
by Gita Wolf Publisher Comments Beasts of India takes a lens to the beast as it is imagined and rendered in folk and tribal art traditions across India. The fine art of the original drawings has been recreated through silk-screening each image by hand. Featuring over 30 original pieces,...
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The Triumph of Modernism: India's Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922-1947
by Partha Mitter Publisher Comments The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the...
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The Holy Cow and Other Animals: A Selection of Indian Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago
by Pratapaditya Pal Book News Annotation This small but lovely catalog was created to accompany an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. Each of 38 works is reproduced in a color plate and discussed in a lengthy catalog entry. Pal, a curator at the Art Institute, provides...
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Designs from India (Pictura)
by Dover Publisher Comments Striking paisley designs, animal and floral ornamentation, fascinating geometrics, and exotic border and spot illustrations fill this treasury of 279 superior-quality designs. Gathered from rare Indian art and artifacts, this collection of...
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Impressions of the East: Treasures of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
by Deborah Rudolph Synopsis Color woodblock prints, early maps of Asia and beyond, and gorgeously detailed scrolls are just some of the highlights in the collection of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Imbedded in the descriptions of the...
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A Celebration of Love (Roli Books)
by Harsha V Dehejia Synopsis The "romantic heroine in the Indian tradition is celebrated in prose, poetry, painting, dance and music. This volume examines these various aspects of her romantic emotion, its depiction in the paintings of the Rajput courts and other schools of art, and...
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Indian Contemporary Painting
by Neville Tuli Publisher Comments This comprehensive, ambitious volume is a seminal survey of the past 100 years of Indian painting. More than 250 large color reproductions present the work of the foremost names in Indian art, from Rabindranath Tagore to the internationally acclaimed M...
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Paintings from Mughal India
by Andrew Topsfield Publisher Comments One of the great kingdoms of human history, the Mughal empire is now lost to the relentless sweep of time. But the wealth of art treasures the Mughals left behind is nonetheless a lasting testament to the sumptuousness of their culture. Among the most...
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Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideals and Art in Tibet 600-2000 A.D.
by Amy Heller Publisher Comments A complete introduction to Tibetan art presented in the context of Tibetan Buddhism. Amy Heller places the artwork within its historical social and religious context utilizing in situ photographs from Tibet. It spans 1400 years of art history....
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Indian Art: A Concise History
by Roy C Craven Synopsis This survey, spanning 4000 years, traces the history of the rich visual expression of India's varied arts from the beginnings in the Indus valley, through the masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art, to the coming of Islam and the eclectic culture of the...
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Indian Sculpture
by Grace Morley Synopsis This richly illustrated text reproduces some of the finest examples of Indian sculpture, with an extensive commentary on the importance of the art of carving, modeling, and casting in the Indian civilization for over 4,000 years....
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Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain
by Susan L Huntington Publisher Comments To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's...
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