Contents
Acknowledgements
Complete Bibliography of B. N. Goswamy
1. Impressions
2. The Inverted Gaze: Padma Kaimal
3. Brijen Goswamy: The Man, Mad about Research: F. S. Aijazuddin
4. Themes, Histories, Interpretations
5. From Good to Bad: Redecoration of Ajanta Cave 10: Walter M. Spink
6. The Lord on the Leaf: Devangana Desai
7. The Story of Salibhadra: A Jain Dharma-Katha: Saryu Doshi
8. The Carpet at the Window: A European Motif in the Mughal Jharokha Portrait: J.P. Losty
9. Christian Themes in Mughal Painting: Franz-Josef Vollmer
10. Visualising the Ramayana: Reading Pictures: Gulammohammed Sheikh
11. A Taste for Green Space: Landscape of the Ancestral Lands and the Mughal Dynastic Image: Philippa Vaughan
12. Jahangir’s Itinerant Masters: Susan Stronge
13. Deccani Marbled Paintings at Bijapur: c.1625–1650: Jagdish Mittal
14. Occult Science and Bijapur’s Yoginis: debra diamond
15. Seven Yogis, a Dog and a Banyan Tree: The Long Journey of a Rajasthani Composition: Rosemary Crill
16. A Knowing Look: Appropriation and Subversion of the Mughal Idiom in Rajput Paintings of the Eighteenth Century: Kavita Singh
17. Devgarh Paintings in the Chandigarh Museum: Milo Cleveland Beach
18. Deogarh Thikana Paintings: Adding to the Chronology of Bagta and Chokha: Usha Bhatia
19. A New Sahibram Painting: Asok Kumar das
20. Painted Pichhvais from the Nathdwara Temple Treasury: The Role of Three Influential Artists in Shaping the Collection: Kay talwar and Kalyan Krishna
21. Manoratha Paintings from Nathdwara: Amit ambalal
22. The Frescoes of Shekhavati: Techniques, Content and Context: Aman nath and Francis Wacziarg
23. The Marvellous Tree of Multan: Tryna Lyons
24. The Secular Sikh Maharaja and his Muslim Wife: Rani Gul Bahar Begum: Nadhra Shahbaz Khan
25. Mural Paintings in the Nineteenth-Century Punjab: Kanwarjit Singh Kang
26. Shared Heritage: Wall Paintings from Naurangabad: Subhash Parihar
27. Unknown Drawings of Ramayana Uttarakanda in Pahari Style: The Pictorial Version as a New Text: Ratan Parimoo
28. Pahari Harihara or Harahari: Nuanced Iconography: Mahesh Sharma
29. Pahari Paintings and Kangra Women’s Songs: Kirin Narayan
30. Sabdaranajana, The Painted Word: Harsha V. Dehejia
31. Of Ragas, Bards, and Inscriptions: The Life of the Ragamala in Pahari Miniatures: Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami
32. Curiosity and its Aesthetics: Alexander von Humboldt, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, the Schlagintweit Brothers and India: Jutta Jain-Neubauer
33. A Vrindavati Scroll Fragment: Drawings by Markanda Mahapatra, a Chitrakara of Jayapur, Koraput District (South Odisha), India: Eberhard Fischer and Dinanath Pathy
34. Notes on Four Albums of Mica Paintings in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Anna L. dallapiccola
35. Iconicity: Indexing Transformation in Kerala Narrative Painting: Mary Beth Heston
36. Post-Independence Indian Art and the American Art World, 1953–1970: Susan S. Bean
37. The Uncommon Universe of Bhupen Khakhar: Geeta Kapur
38. The Poetry of Zarina’s Art: Mary-ann Milford-Lutzker
39. Contemporary Miniature Shifts in Pakistan: Virginia Whiles
40. “A Song for This Day”: Instances of Poetic Encroachment in Contemporary Pakistani Art: Salima Hashmi
41. Pinning Butterflies: Miniatures, Museums and Meaning: Darielle Mason
Bibliography
Contributors
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About the Publication
Indian Painting: Themes, Histories, Interpretations is a tribute to the scholarship of the distinguished art historian B. N. Goswamy, whose critical influence opened up new ways of thinking about Indian painting. Forty major scho... Read More
About the Author
Mahesh Sharma is Professor of History at Panjab University. He has worked extensively on the history and culture of Western Himalayas and Early Medieval Indian History. Padma Kaimal trained in the history of Indian art under Joann... Read More
