This Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and sumptuously illustrated catalogue of Deccani paintings, drawings, and manuscripts in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art in Hyderabad is certain to become a landmark in the study of Indian miniature painting. By far the most comprehensive publication on painting in the Deccan, a region that spans south-central India, it provides sensitive analyses of 104 exquisite paintings, drawings, and ...
Transfigurations: The Sculpture of Mrinalini Mukherjee
Brigitte Singh first came to Sanganer, Jaipur’s hand-blockprinting centre, as a student of miniatures three decades ago. Today, the visual almanac of her work gives us a truly alternate way to read medieval and modern civilisational encounters—through the evolution and transmission of motifs and craft techniques over centuries. Brigitte Singh’s exquisite work with blockprints is a form of re-enacted design history, rendered in visual rather than ...
This book, a two-volume set, contains thought-provoking essays on sustainable development as well as award-winning photographs from Photosphere 2016, which culminated in an outdoor exhibition titled 'Panchtattvas: The Road Ahead'. The exhibition, held at New Delhi's India Habitat Centre, aimed to create not only a new language of photography but to sensitise the public on significant stories about sustainability through photo-installations that were freed from ...
Jangarh Singh Shyam: The Enchanted Forest: Paintings and Drawings From the Crites Collection
The rare bond between a painter and a collector develops to the benefit of both, each making the other richer over time. Such was the bond between Jangarh Singh Shyam and Niloufar and Mitchell S. Crites, who were among Jangarh’s major patrons from the 1980s, when few were interested in the art form that Jangarh fathered, which generations of Gond artists would follow. Jangarh’s spark — which came from his artistic genius, his passion for Gond ...
Manaku of Guler: The Life and Work of Another Great Indian Painter From a Small Hill State
This work centers upon Manaku of Guler older brother of the greatly celebrated Nainsukh reconstructing whatever little is known of his life, but following closely his artistic journey. Manaku came from an obscure little town in the hills of northern India home to his singularly talented family – and yet his vision knew almost no limits. Endowed with soaring imagination and great painterly skills, this man with a name that literally means a ...
Indian Antiquities: Modern & Contemporary Fine Arts Auction
Contemporary Art North India charts the trajectory of Modernism in the region, tracing aesthetic influences and history leading up to its contemporary art. The book’s editorial strategy focuses specially on the unique practices of the various artists who live and work in North India, and their aesthetic predecessors, through profiles as opposed to overarching histories that treat oeuvres for their overlaps. This particular approach allows for diversity, ...
Reverse glass painting is a fascinating yet comparatively unknown facet of Indian art that flourished in the mid-19th century. Painted by Chinese and Indian artists, these ‘exotic’ paintings in luminous colours were much favoured by royal patrons, and also by prosperous landowners and city merchants in colonial India. The themes ranged from portraits of rulers, their families, nobles, dancers and courtesans, to landscapes and a wide variety of ...
Manish Pushkale, an autodidact, is among the most promising young painters of India. His work has a unique language of abstraction that carries his personal imprints, and has attained maturity and significance through several shifts in experimentation and experience. This bilingual (English and French) book captures Pushkale’s evolution as an artist through four short essays-each by a different author who talks of their unique perspective on ...
Indian Paintings of the British Period in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art
This exceptionally informative and beautifully illustrated catalogue examines the Museum’s holdings of paintings done in India under the British during the late 18th and 19th centuries in style popularly known as company Painting. The high-commissioned the best examples of these paintings in India routinely took them back to England upon their retirement from service in India Despite that obstacle and the reticence of most Indian collectors of miniature ...
