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Sharma, Mahesh and Padma Kaimal (Editors). Indian | 00801989

Sharma, Mahesh and Padma Kaimal (Editors). Indian Painting - Themes, Histories, Interpretation. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2013 | Edited Book | FineArts | 00801989
Mahesh Sharma and Padma Kaimal (Editor)
TitleIndian Painting - Themes, Histories, Interpretation
Contributor(s)F.S. Aijazuddin, Walter M. Spink, Devangana Desai, Saryu Doshi, J.P. Losty, Franz Josef Vollmer, G.M. Sheikh, Philippa Vaughan, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, Susan Stronge, Jagdish Mittal, Debra Diamond, Rosemary Crill, Kavita Singh, Milo Cleveland Beach, Usha Bhatia, Ashok Kumar Das, Kay Talwar, Kalyan Krishna, Amit Ambalal, Aman Nath, Francis Wacziarg, Tryna Lyons, Nadhra Shahbaz Khan, Kanwarjit Singh Kang, Subhash Parihar, Ratan Parimoo, Mahesh Sharma, Kirin Narayan, Harsha V. Dehejia, Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Jutta Jain Neubauer, Eberhard Fischer, Dinanath Pathy, Anna L. Dallapiccola, Mary Beth Heston, Susan S. Bean, Geeta Kapur, Mary Ann Milford Lutzker, Virginia Whiles, Salima Hashmi, Darielle Mason
Document TypeEdited Book
PublisherMapin Publishing, Ahmedabad
Date of Publication2013
First Edition2013
Pages492 | ills. 350
BindingHB
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-8185822228
Keywordsb-n-goswamy | osianama | pahari-school-of-miniature-art | authored-edited-books | book-bka | library

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

Image Credits

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