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 ...

Altaf: a retrospective by Nancy Adajania, a project of DelhiArt Gallery, ed. by Kishore Singh

ISBN: 9789381217641, 9381217645

The book is on Altaf Mohemedi. A number of diverse minds have contributed to this volume and brought a perspective to bear on both the man as well as his work.

Alternate lyricism, ed. by Ratnottama Sengupta

Jani, Jehangir

ISBN: 9788188204656, 818820465X

Jani's art uninhabitedly represents experiential realms of sexual and communitarian subcultures as he speaks his political dissent from within these experiences.

The alternate nation of Abanindranath Tagore, foreword by Partha Mitter

Banerji, Debashish

ISBN: 9788132102397, 8132102398

A passionate, wide-ranging and serious reassessment of one of the most influential painters of modern India.

Shape grammar and space syntax approach to contextual design

Lambe, Neeta

ISBN: 9788195727247, 8195727247

The book explains the pattern-generating quality of traditional Pol row houses of Ahmedabad, India, through the shape grammar approach. Shape grammar and space syntax as methodical tools are explored in this book for contextual design.

Aminul Islam: drawing and art writing, 1950-2000, ed. by Osman Jamal

ISBN: 9789846250008, 9846250002

Aminul Islam is a leading artist of Bangladesh. The book is a catalogue of more than a hundred of Islam's drawings spanning over a period of fifty years, displayed at an exhibition in Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in February 2001.

Amitava: the complete works, ed. by Kishore Singh

ISBN: 9789381217276, 9381217270

The book is a catalogue of the exhibition of Amitava's works. Amitava is one of the modern India's most significant artists. Roobina Karode has contributed a key essay to this publication and Amrita Gupta Singh's overview of the artist is a comprehensive one, while Sanjay Kumar has commented on the different aspects of Amitava's work.

Amorous delight: the Amarushataka palm leaf manuscript, illustrated by the Master of Sharanakula (Orissa, India)

Fischer, Eberhard et al

ISBN: 9783907077214, 3907077210

The Amarushataka is a rich and complex anthology of Sanskrit poems with syntax and metaphors open to various interpretations; they can even be understood literally in many ways. We do not know which translations or commentaries were available to the painter and his learned contemporary.

Amrita Sher-Gil: a self-portrait in letters and writings, introd., annotated & ed. by Vivan Sundaram, 2 vols.

ISBN: 9788189487591, 8189487590

This self-portrait of the iconic Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) represents more than a life. For this book in two volumes, Amrita's extant letters and writings are translated and reproduced from the originals, and in their entirety. The book draws on the primary text of these letters to open up a visual narrative around the artist's oeuvre, complemented by a parallel text of notes t...

Amrita Sher-Gil: an Indian artist family of the twentieth century, with an essay by Deepak Ananth

ISBN: 9788190391146, 8190391143

The artist family presented in this book span three genaration: Umrao Singh Sher-Gill (1870-1954), his daughter Amrita Sher-Gill (1913-1941) and his grandson (Amrita's sister Indira's son) Vivan Sundaram (b.1943).

The Ananda-Vana of Indian art: Dr. Anand Krishna felicitation volume, (with contributions by over fifty international experts), ed. by Naval Krishna and Manu Krishna

ISBN: 9788186569481, 8186569480

The articles encompass a time span from BCE to modern times and cover a wide range of themes, from art to architecture, from history to culture.

Anant Raje architect selected works 1971-2009, ed. by Shubhra Raje et al, foreword by William J R Curtis, intord. by Gautam Bhatia

ISBN: 9789382381020, 9382381023

This book features over thirty projects that Raje had assembled into a skeletal draft - of both built and unbuilt works, and competition entries. Each project is extensively illustrated with photographs, models, drawings, sketches and reflections by the architect, many of which are previously unpublished. These have been selected and assembled from Raje's office archives, diaries, interviews, p...

Points of view: defining moments of photography in India,

ISBN: 9788192803715, 8192803716

The book comprises of a rich selection of 15 essays that are the outcome of first and second generation critical enquiry into the history of photography in India, its social imprints and artistic intentions. The story of the lens and shutter is not just a narrative of colonial conquest and capture, but also marks the imaginative subversion and creative enquiry that went into the making of a mod...

The ancient abbey of Ajanta, compiled with notes by Prasenjit Dasgupta et al.

Nivedita, Sister

This monograph offers the author's portrayal of Ajanta, with its monumental architecture, vibrant sculpture, and rich array of paintings. The author visited Ajanta in 1909 and her essays were serialized in The Modern Review in 1910.;

Ancient and Medieval Indian Costume, 2 vols.

Alkazi, Roshen

Vol.I: Ancient Indian Costume, xii,222p., ;Vol.II: Medieval Indian Costume: India and Central Asia, xii,334p., ;India between 321BC and 850AD was one of the world's great civilisations. This book surveys the evolution of costume through the history and art of Ancient India.

Ancient and traditional boxes, caskets and chests in Sri Lankan museums, Vol.1,8th to 18th century boxes, caskets and chests, with Senerath Wickramasinghe

De Silva, P.H.D.H.

ISBN: 9789553055453, 9553055451

The existing lacuna in the National Museums' collection of carved ivory caskets and carved ivory cabinets is a matter of concern. In 1961 Prematilleke' described an ivory carved cabinet which is in the custody of the Archaeological Museum, University of Peradeniya. Apart from what was reported by Ananda Coomaraswamy in 1908 there is little we know of carved ivory caskets. It is possible that th...

Ancient and traditional boxes, caskets and chests in Sri Lankan museums: Killota or Chunam (lime) boxes

De Silva, P.H.D.H.

ISBN: 9789556652819, 9556652817

In 2008 a study was undertaken on the collections of `Ancient and Traditional Boxes, Caskets and Chests in Sri Lanka Museums' and the study of Lime boxes in these collections was a part of this scholarly exercise. Among the other types described and illustrated in this publication are; Animal and fruit-shaped Lime boxes, Wheel or Udakkiya-shaped Lime boxes, Truncate cone-shaped and Globe-shaped...