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Author : Ram Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Drawing Today, 1987 written by Ram Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book India, a Reference Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neville Tuli
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Contemporary Art written by Neville Tuli and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auction catalog; with reproduction of the original paintings by various painters.
Author : Josef James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Indian Sculpture written by Josef James and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book scans the work of a particular group of Indian sculptors for what might be distinctive about contemporary Indian sculpture in general. It discusses the historical and social background, philosophical premises and technical arguments which might have contributed to the development of this unusual body of work. It seeks to provide some understanding of the framework and practical directions in which contemporary Indian art is moving and hazard some answers to its whys and wherefores. The book consists of a major essay on the subject and biographical presentations of seven sculptors who form a distinctive school. The major essay recounts the historical tradition of Indian sculpture, discusses the impact of Western art upon it and focusses upon the efforts of this group of sculptors to work off the weight of Western ideas. The work of this particular group of sculptors is described as an intelligent attempt not just to subvert the hegemony of Western methodology and tradition on Indian art but also, and more importantly, to formulate an expanded discourse founded upon the resources latent in traditional Indian thought and sensibility.
Author : John Guy
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396932
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India written by John Guy and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of the emergence of Buddhist art in southern India, featuring vibrant photography of rare works, many published here for the first time Named for two primary motifs in Buddhist art, the sacred bodhi tree and the protective snake, Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India is the first publication to foreground devotional works produced in the Deccan from 200 BCE to 400 CE. Unlike traditional narratives, which focus on northern India (where the Buddha was born, taught, and died), this groundbreaking book presents Buddhist art from monastic sites in the south. Long neglected, this is among the earliest surviving bodies of Buddhist art, and among the most sublimely beautiful. An international team of researchers contributes new scholarship on the sculptural and devotional art associated with Buddhism, and masterpieces from recently excavated Buddhist sites are published here for the first time—including Kanaganahalli and Phanigiri, the most important new discoveries in a generation. With its exploration of Buddhism’s emergence in southern India, as well as of India’s deep commercial and cultural engagement with the Hellenized and Roman worlds, this definitive study expands our understanding of the origins of Buddhist art itself.
Author : Helle Bundgaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136806326
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Indian Art Worlds in Contention written by Helle Bundgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book explores the opinions of artists, critics and others involved with arts or crafts, arguing for a theory that considers the different discursive formations and related strategic practices of an art world. Focusing on Orissan patta paintings in India the author examines the local, regional and national discourses involved. In so doing, the text demonstrates that, while painters' local discourses are characterised by pragmatism, the discourses of regional and especially national elites are concerned with the exegesis of local paintings and their association with the great Sanskrit tradition A central theme of the study focuses on the awards given for skill in craft making and their changing significance as they pass from national and regional elites to local painters. It is shown how certain key actions by local painters result from a clash between local discourses on the one hand and regional and national discourses on the other.
Author : L. James Dempsey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155892
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Blackfoot War Art written by L. James Dempsey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, which were essential facets of Blackfoot culture. Their war ethic served as a unifying force among the four tribes of the Blackfoot nation—Siksika, Blood, and North and South Piegan. In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. He has mined archival resources and museum collections and interviewed many tribal members to provide a uniquely Native perspective on the importance of warrior art in Blackfoot history and culture. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment. This singular historical record of all available information on Blackfoot warrior pictography depicts painted robes; war tepee covers, liners, and doors; and painted panels. Dempsey provides descriptions and a great deal of other information about the pieces included here. His survey focuses especially on recent paintings that scholars have overlooked. In revealing changing trends in the representation of war, Dempsey skillfully weaves together pictures, people, and histories to convey a fascinating view of this warrior art from a Blood perspective.
Author : T. Richard Blurton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674391895
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Hindu Art written by T. Richard Blurton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the linga of Shiva to ritual lamps, from a Vishnu temple to a heap of stones streaked with sacred vermilion, from illustrations of the epic adventures of Rama to a terracotta goddess figurine, the art Hinduism has inspired over the centuries is as rich and various as the religion itself - and, for most Westerners, as unknown. Hindu Art offers a key to this mystery. A splendid, richly illustrated introduction, the book opens to readers the manifold glories of the religious art of the Indian subcontinent. The narratives that Hindu artists illustrate, the gods they depict, and the forms they observe are the products of thousands of years of tradition and development. In a survey that stretches back to prehistory, T. Richard Blurton discusses religious, cultural and historical influences that figure in Hindu art, as well as those that Hinduism shares with Buddhism and Jainism. Tracing the development of Hindu art, he shows how it has come to embrace the widely varying styles of regions from Nepal to Afghanistan, from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh. Against this historical background, Blurton considers the use of images from the three major cults of Hinduism - the worship of Shiva, Vishnu and the Great Goddess - in painting, sculpture and temple architecture. As fascinating as it is informative, Hindu Art offers invaluable insight into one of the world's great and ancient cultures. It will prove an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in the art of India.
Author : Susan C. Power
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327662
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Art of the Cherokee written by Susan C. Power and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to tracing the development of Cherokee art, Power reveals the wide range of geographical locales from which Cherokee art has originated. These places include the Cherokee's tribal homeland in the southeast, the tribe's areas of resettlement in the West, and abodes in the United States and beyond to which individuals subsequently moved. Intimately connected to the time and place of its creation, Cherokee art changed along with Cherokee social, political, and economic circumstances. The entry of European explorers into the Southeast, the Trail of Tears, the American Civil War, and the signing of treaties with the U.S. government are among the transforming events in Cherokee art history that Power discusses."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780422811002
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie Sociale Et Culturelle written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1986-11-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Zena Pearlstone Mathews
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870993631
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Symbol and Substance in American Indian Art written by Zena Pearlstone Mathews and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1984 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Radcliffe Bolon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043692
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Forms of the Goddess Lajj? Gaur? in Indian Art written by Carol Radcliffe Bolon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking images of a certain Indian goddess have been variously referred to as the "shameless woman" the "nude squatting goddess," the "mother goddess," or, because her historical name remains unknown, more than twenty-five names, among them Aditi, Lajjā Gaurī, Renukā, and Nagna Kabambdha. The best-known images of this goddess have a female torso and a lotus flower in place of a head, while her legs are bent up at the knees and drawn up to each side in a position that has been described as one of "giving birth" or "self-display." This type of goddess figure is explained as part of a long, highly sophisticated tradition of expressing fertility and well-being in Indian art. The artists creating images of Lajjā Gaurī drew on various ancient symbols of fortune, fertility, and life-force to communicate her power through their rich heritage of meanings. As these historical-religious symbols and images were constantly reused and reincorporated, they formed a new and enriched religious context. In the process of recycling they became empowered cultural metaphors, visual morphemes in the language of Indian art. Because there are no texts to explain the figure, the study proceeds from the basis of the objects to derive their meaning. Carol Bolon charts the changes in the goddess's form over a period of more than four centuries, including its possible adoption from tribal worship into Hindu temples, and brings a new appreciation of Lajjā Gaurī's rich symbolic meanings and cultural context.
Author : Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134700253
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture written by Alison Donnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture is the first comprehensive reference book to provide multidisciplinary coverage of the field of black cultural production in Britain. The publication is of particular value because despite attracting growing academic interest in recent years, this field is still often subject to critical and institutional neglect. For the purpose of the Companion, the term 'black' is used to signify African, Caribbean and South Asian ethnicities, while at the same time addressing the debates concerning notions of black Britishness and cultural identity. This single volume Companion covers seven intersecting areas of black British cultural production since 1970: writing, music, visual and plastic arts, performance works, film and cinema, fashion and design, and intellectual life. With entries on distinguished practitioners, key intellectuals, seminal organizations and concepts, as well as popular cultural forms and local activities, the Companion is packed with information and suggestions for further reading, as well as offering a wide lens on the events and issues that have shaped the cultural interactions and productions of black Britain over the last thirty years. With a range of specialist advisors and contributors, this work promises to be an invaluable sourcebook for students, researchers and academics interested in exploring the diverse, complex and exciting field of black cultural forms in postcolonial Britain.
Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253325556
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Turkish Traditional Art Today written by Henry Glassie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He tells of architecture, calligraphy, woodworking, and earthenware, but lays particular emphasis on the brilliant, underglaze-painted ceramics of Kutahya and the rich, piled carpets for which Turkey has been famed for centuries. While searching for the traits that define art and the stylistic complexities that characterize Turkish creativity, Glassie focuses on the artists and their theories and practices as well as the works they produce.
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Publisher : VADEHRA ART GALLERY
ISBN 13 : 8187737220
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Indian Art: Inventing written by and published by VADEHRA ART GALLERY. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of art work by 28 artists against the variety of forms that have developed since the 1990s.
Author : Susan Sinclair
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412079
Total Pages : 1508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.) written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996134
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Lotus Transcendent written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1991 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative commentaries on 187 Indonesian bronzes, ranging from devotional icons, to jewelry, to items created for domestic use. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
