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illustrated with photographs, models, drawings, sketches and reflections by the architect, many of which are previously unpublished.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...

Art as dialogue: essays in phenomenology of aesthetic experience, with foreword by Kapila Vatsyayan

Biswas, Goutam

ISBN: 9788124600436, 8124600430

Contents: (i) The phenomenology of aesthetic experience (ii) Martin Buber's concept of art as dialogue (iii) Michael polanyi's aesthetics (iv) Personal;man and aesthetic truth (v) Artistic knowledge.

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.

The impostor in the waiting room: Raqs Media Collective

Exhibition catalog published by Bose Pacia, New York; November 2004. 52 pages with full color reproductions and texts by Raqs Media Collective, Gunalan Nadarajan, Ranjit Hoskote, and Steve Dietz.

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...

Ancient and traditional boxes, caskets and chests in Sri Lankan museums, Vol.II,19th to 20th century boxes, caskets and chests

De Silva, P.H.D.H.

ISBN: 9789553072146, 9553072143

Ancient art of Gandhara and Mathura: a study

Mishra, Mukesh Kumar

ISBN: 9789351710455, 9351710459

Ancient Buddhist mural paintins of India and Sri Lanka

Somathilake, M

ISBN: 9789552050336, 9552050332

This study is not restricted merely to a comparative discussion of content and stylistic attributes of the two traditions of painting; instead it also analyses in detail the techniques adopted and the pigments and plasters used. Second, it endeavours to place the themes of the paintings within the wider context of Buddhist canonical texts as known in the ancient period. Third, it highlights the...

Seher Shah: Jihad pop

Shah, Seher

Exhibition catalog of paintings published by Bose Pacia, New York, 2008. 74 pages full-color reproductions and texts by Peter Nagy and Tom Finkelpearl.

Ancient Indian and Iranian art: a comparative study

Khan, Sabir Hussain

ISBN: 9788189880620, 8189880624

Ancient Indian art & social reality, ed. by Susmita Pande

ISBN: 9789350502174, 9350502178

The present volume is the result of the participation of many art historians of national and International repute in the National Seminar held at Vikram University, Ujjain under the auspices of ICHR.

Ancient Indian board games

Reddy, Deme Raja et al.

ISBN: 9789350502228, 9350502224

Ancient Indian furniture

Murthy, K. Krishna

ISBN: 9788175740099, 8175740094

Ancient Indian mother-goddess votive discs

Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar

Ancient Indian religious architecture beyond the sectarian boundaries, ed. by Prem Sagar Chaturvedi et al

ISBN: 9788173201547, 8173201544

Ancient pagan: Buddhist plain of merit, photographs by Michael Freeman et al

Stadtner, Donald M.

ISBN: 9786167339320, 6167339325

Pagan is the largest and most replacement centre of Buddhist art in the ancient world. Indeed, nearly three thousand brick monuments dot the landscape up and down the banks of the Irrawaddy as far as the eye can see. Construction at Pagan peaked between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries when the city was home to the country's kings and its chief religious personalities. The author a disting...