Vernacular architecture of India: traditional residential styles and spaces, photographs by Tejinder S. Randhawa

Randhawa, Tejinder S.

ISBN: 9789356074538, 9356074534

A comprehensive book covering the eclectic range of traditional residential architecture of India, profusely illustrated with nearly 1600 colour illustrations in 540 pages and spreads. It is a visual tour de force of the great building and craft skills of India and covers the vast gamut of vernacular building styles from all regions of the country.

Ajanta

Thatte, Ram Anant

ISBN: 9789350502990, 9350502992

Mr. Ram Thatte spent several years in Ajanta, living so close to those paintings, day in day out that he almost became one with them. Those characters in the paintings seemed to talk with him as if they were his close buddies. His love for them is evident in the way he salvaged the 'shat-danta Jataka'.

The Ajanta caves: ancient paintings of Buddhist India, text and photographs by Benoy K. Behl, with a note on the Jataka stories by Sangitika Nigam, foreword by Milo C. Beach

ISBN: 9780500285015, 0500285012

The exquisite murals depict the Jatakas (tales of previous incarnations) of Lord Buddha, scenes of princely processions, ladies with their handmaidens, bejewelled animals, ascetics in monasteries and fantastical birds and beasts, all demonstrating a startling degree of sophistication.

Ajanta of Ladakh: Gon-Nila-Phuk meditation caves, Saspol (English, Hindi and Tibetan)

Sonam, Tsering

Ajanta paintings: 86 panels of Jatakas & other themes

Singh, Rajesh K

ISBN: 9788192510736, 8192510735

Under a new title this book is an abridged edition of An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves, 1st ed. (Baroda: Hari Sena Press, 2012) by the same author. This edition is focused on the paintings of Ajanta, and does away from the detailed historical developments of the caves.

Ajanta paintings: their composition, technique deterioration and preservation, ed. by S.P. Singh

Lal, BB

ISBN: 9788187763406, 818776340X

Ajanta paintings: unidentified and misinterpreted

Talim, Meena

ISBN: 9789380852140, 9380852142

Ajanta: handbook of the paintings, narrative wall-paintings, 3 vols

Schlingloff, Dietar

ISBN: 9788173054563, 8173054568

Vol.I, Interpretation, 517p., several illus.;Vol.II, Supplememt, 350p., several illus.;Vol.III, Plates, 31p.

The great temple at Thanjavur: one thousand years, 1010-2010, photographs by Bharath Ramanruthan

Michell, George. et al

ISBN: 9789380581019, 9380581017

All phases of the temple's history are presented in this volume, which offers a comprehensive account of its architecture, sculptures, paintings, and historical records, as well as its ritual and cultural life. Bharath Ramamrutham's splendid photographs are the most complete ever to be published. His images are supplemented by high quality digital images of the Chola-period murals in the passag...

Ajrakh: impressions and expressions; a journey of antique traditional Indian textile, Printing with Natural Dyes from its origin till date

Dedhia, Ela et al.

ISBN: 9788190259422, 8190259423

Akbar Padamsee: work in language

Padamsee, Bhanumati et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788185026916, 8185026912

Though widely spoken of as a modernist, Akbar Padamsee continues to resist easy categorization. Throughout his illustrious career spanning six decades, he has remained fiercely experimental, individualistic, and original. This richly illustrated volume presents a varied and critical appraisal of his oeuvre. The opening piece-an extensive interview with the artist by Homi Bhabha - and the wide r...

Akbar's tomb, Sikandarah, near Agra, described and illustrated by Edmund W. Smith

Contents: (i) Akbar's tomb (ii) Gateways (iii) Jahangir's account of Akbar's tomb (iv) Aram Banu and Shukru-N-Nisa as described by the emperor Jahangir (v) Inscriptions.;

The art of matching charts

Vasudev, Gayatri Devi

ISBN: 9788194930204, 8194930200

This book is a complete and comprehensive guide to the intricate art of matching charts. For the first time ever, the book tells you what actually constitutes matching of charts and how to go about it. It shows you how to avoid charts that show marriage breakdown due to : Premature death Severe incompatibility. Mental and psychological aberrations Loss of Spouse Infidelity. It contains examples...

Akriti to Sanskriti: the journey of Indian forms

Dehejia, Harsha V

ISBN: 9788189738532, 8189738534

This book explores some Akritis that adorn both majestic and grand monuments, as well as common and ordinary speces, and which through their purely visual language are pointers to not only our culture, but equally to Brahma jnana or transcendental knowledge. These beautiful visual representations of both the ordinary people and artisans, are not individual expressions but that of the shared exp...

Alamkara: 5000 years of Indian art

Sharma, R.C. et al

ISBN: 9789971917777, 9971917777

Alamkara in Sanskrit means ornamentation or decoration, in the visual, performing or literary arts. This book explores this notion of ornamentation in the context of objects made for use in domestic, religious and courtly settings. These objects are grouped into sections focusing on various aspect of Indian life, including the cooking and consumption of food, dress and jewellery, past-times, th...

Alamkara: the beauty of ornament

Balakrishnan, Usha R.

ISBN: 9788185832302, 8185832307

The book is a catalogue of jewellery from the permanent collection of the National Museum, New Delhi. It is published to accompany the exhibition that marks the reinstallation of the jewellery gallery in the museum. The essays and descriptions in the book, authored by leading scholar and jewellery historian, explores the rich and unique heritage of the collection.

Alampur: a study in early Chalukyan art, revised 2nd edition

Ramachandra Rao, PR

The seventh century Nava-Brahma temples of Alampur in the Mahaboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh in India, are remarkable for the coalescence of an indigenous architectural idiom with the early western Chalukyan style of Badami, evolving in the process, a distinctive structural expression.

Algorithmic sustainable design: twelve lectures on architecture, a series of twelve videos applying cutting-edge mathematical techniques to architectural and urban design

Salingaros, Nikos A.

ISBN: 9789937623094, 993762309X

Ali's world, foreword by Aamir Khan

Mukhopadhyay, Badal and Swapna

ISBN: 9788174366740, 8174366741

This book narrates the story of Ali, an unusual child with a special talent whose life was cut short by an accident when it was beginning to take shape. During the last few months of his life he painted at a feverish pitch, experimenting all kinds of mediums and art styles.

Shiva's waterfront temples: architects and their audiences in medieval India

Kaligotla, Subhashini

ISBN: 9780300258943, 0300258941

The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier. A UNESCO World heritage site and the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, Pattadakal and its neighboring sites are of major historical importance. In Shiva's waterfront temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates these buildings in the ...