Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art
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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 ...
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 ...
This book Deccani Scroll Paintings is the first comprehensive study of all aspects of a unique tradition of narrative scroll paintings in India. These scrolls have been used for over four hundred years in the north-western region of the present Andhra Pradesh state by Telugu-speaking itinerant picture-showmen belonging to a community entitled to perform before people of certain caste. The bock provides hitherto unknown material to scholars about the artists, the ...
This beautifully written and illustrated book is the fourth publication of the jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum and other types of Indian art is of such exceptional quality that it has long commanded the attention of art scholars and connoisseurs.
This catalogue of Rajasthani paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art features many unpublished works by the best-known artists working in different states and `thikanas' of Rajasthan from the the early 16th to the mid 19th century. Five leading scholars of Indian painting have joined forces to write detailed and eloquent analyses of these rare works, blending fresh insights into the varied themes and fundamental art historical developments ...
This catalogue presents the Mittal Museum's Holdings of drawings from Rajasthan, which are among the finest of their kind in the world. The collection was formed with the superub eye and discriminating taste of Jagdish Mittal and his wife, Kamla. As trained artists they were quick to recognise the immediacy vand graphic inventiveness of these drawings, as well as their capacity to reveal the entire creative process. The text by Andrew Topsfield, one of the ...
This book provides a detailed survey of all aspects of this craft, useful notes and references, and a select bibliography. Based on latest researches about this craft, they will add to precise knowledge about bidris. Significantly, all the fifty objects in the Museum are published in color along with detailed notes on them. A map and a number of text figures will further help their study. This book will inspire future scholars of Indian metalware and encourage ...
The art collection of Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad, has been widely perceived, since its establishment in 1976, as one of the pre-eminent assemblages of Indian art in the world. The Museums was a major lender to the festivals of India in UK (1982) and USA (1985), and a large number of important books and journals have reproduced works from its collection. However, the Museums does not have a building where its art objects can be easily ...