In adoration of Krishna: Pichhwais of Shrinathji-Tapi collection, introductory essay by B.N. Goswamy

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The book unveils the wondrous world of pichhwais – the devotional textiles that hang behind the image of Krishna as Shrinathji. Presented here are masterpieces from Praful and Shilpa Shah’s TAPI (Textiles & Art of the People of India) collection of Surat, regarded as one of the most significant repositories of India’s textile art.

An evocative Introduction by Porf. B.N. Goswamy leads on to article on the two main centres of pichhwai-making by texile scholars Dr. Kalyan Krishna and Kay Talwar. The entrise cataloguing the collection and describing each pichhwal, the result of painstaking effort by the TAPI research team, constitute a mine of information. A unique feature of the book is a selection of stortes translated from of the book is a selection of stories translated from early vernacular accounts of the sect by Prof. Karuna Goswamy.

It is an invaluable resource for designers, art historians and anyone interested in the decorative arts of Indian textiles in the context of the spiritual lives of thousands of people in this part of the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kalyan Krishna

Kalyan Krishna is Professor and Head of the Department of History of Art at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), from where he obtained an M.A. in Art History. He also holds an M.A. in Museum practice from the university of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Mughal Painting of the Akbar Period from BHU. Dr. Krishna was formerly a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the University of Syacuse, New York, and Curator at the Calico Museum of Textiles Ahmedabad. Among his publications are pigment Paintings on Cloth and Indan Costumes. Dr. Krishna is a follower of pushti Marg.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kay Talwar

Kay Talwar holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Michigan. Since the publication of Indian Pigment Paintings on Cloth by her and Kalyan Krishna, she has been involved in the Indian community of Los Angeles, promotingd and supporting Indian art and Angles, culural activties. For six years she served as Chairman of the Southem Asia Art Council at the Angeles County Museum of Art.