Family: one hundred quotes and thoughts with one hundred paintings of Lord Ganesha

Kogata, R.N et al

ISBN: 9788124606216, 8124606218

This collection of 100 quotations on home, hearth and good family management with thematic paintings presents the near and dear ones as a colourful bouquet of fragrant fragile flowers, interwoven intricately but inter-dependent for love, care, respect and inspiration for leading a happy, successful and productive life with smoother, stronger family ties.;

History miniature art and women: medieval deccan 15th-17th century A.D

Lavanya, B

ISBN: 9788180901850, 8180901858

Unpainted paintings

Portfolio of Limited Edition Reproductions by Amit Ambalal.

Traditional Indian art

Bhaumik, Akshey

Gods, deities, and demons in the paintings of Kucha

Zin, Monika

ISBN: 9789387496842, 9387496848

This book changes our perspective on the paintings in the Buddhist caves of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road (today's Xinjiang Province, an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China) by showing the important role spirit-deities - both benevolent and malevolent - and demonic iconography in general played in the pictorial programmes of the caves. The Kucha paintings show things that were...

Colours of devotion: the legendary paintings and textiles of the Vallabha Sampradaya, 1500-1900

ISBN: 9789391125899, 9391125891

The author explores the history of the Pushti Marg community. This book first delves into the core of Pushti Marg-Vallabhacharya's philosophy and theology of Shrinathji (a form of Krishna); secondly, it explores how his system of beliefs was expressed in an organized religion and rituals that resulted in the production of sacred objects, mainly paintings, pichvais and shrine textiles. Finally i...

Husain's Raj: visions of empire and nation

Ramaswamy, Sumathi

ISBN: 9789383243136, 9383243139

The book forefronts the ludic quality in the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, independent India's most iconic modernist and also arguably its most playful. The book focuses on a series of paintings in which the artist offers a postcolonial visual commentary on the erstwhile colonial world in which he had been born and raised.

I see no stranger: early Sikh art and devotion

Goswamy, BN et al.

ISBN: 9788188204779, 8188204773

This work documents to bring together and illuminate works of art that identify core Sikh beliefs in the period of their early development by the ten historical Gurus, 16th-17th cent.

The illustrated Rumi: a treasury of wisdom from the poet of the soul, tr. by Philip Dunn et al, foreword by Huston Smith

ISBN: 9780060620189, 0060620188

The spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and poetry in tr. are accompanied by rare and wonderful art in the Sufi tradition.

Images of celestial bodies in Sri Lankan art

Wikramagamage, Chandra

ISBN: 9789553004840, 9553004849

Immortal miniatures: from the collection of National Museum, New Delhi

Daljeet

ISBN: 9788186880029, 818688002X

The imperial image: paintings for the Mughal court, revised and expanded edition

Beach, Milo Cleveland

ISBN: 9781935677161, 1935677160

In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book, Dr. Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art. He adds many of the outstanding works that entered the collection with the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1987. Together, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, have the distinction of being on...

Impressions of Rajasthan, photographs by Bruno Morandi

Carisse et al

ISBN: 9782080111715, 208011171X

This book offers a unique view of women painting the walls of their modest homes with powerful, sacred frescoes depicting village scenes, abstract designs, or natural elements such as trees in blossom, peacocks, elephants, tigers, and lotus flowers. The informative text by Carisse and Gerard Busquet provides the historical context of this land rich in architectural patrimony and artistic tradit...

Imprints off a sensitive soul: the art of Amitabha Banerjee

Majumder, Manasij

On the art of Amitabha Banerjee, one of most important post-independence artists.

In a world of gods and goddesses: the mystic art of Indra Sharma, text by James H. Bae, foreword by Yogesh Atal

ISBN: 9788187107323, 8187107324

Deriving inspiration from the Puranas and Upanishads, Sharma has kept alive the sacred tradition of Indian art through his paintings, which adorn millions of Hindu households throughout the world.

In conversation with Husain paintings

Siddiqui, Rashda

ISBN: 9788187478225, 8187478225

Distributor statement from label on lining paper. On paintings of Maqbul Fida Husain, eminent Indian painter, a study; includes reproduction of his paintings and brief biographical sketch.

In pursuit of empire: treasures from the Toor collection of Sikh Art, introd. by William Dalrymple

Toor, Davinder

ISBN: 9781911271031, 1911271032

The remarkable story of the Sikh Empire told through a spectacular selection of over 100 rare and beautiful objects from the world's finest collection of Sikh art.

In the absence of Jagannatha: the Anasara paintings replacing the Jagannatha icon in Puri and South Orissa (India)

Fischer, Eberhard et al

ISBN: 9789381523346, 9381523347

Incredible India: arrested movement, sculpture and painting by Kapila Vatsyayan

ISBN: 9888183280669, 8183280668

With lucid style and stunning precision, this enticing mongograph embodies the residual essence of fundamental research, couched in a flowing, communicative language for the lay reader. The monograph provides a glimpse into this vast canvas of the Indian sculptural and pictorial traditions.;

Blood and spit; living with a wound; a room to pray; countdown

Santhosh, T.V.

ISBN: 9788190175869, 8190175866

It covers works from 2007 to 2009, encompassing works from four of his solos - Blood and Spit, Living with a Wound, A Room to Pray and Countdown. The publication includes essays by prominent writers, cultural theorists and art critics- Shaheen Merali, Brigitte Ulmer, Alexander Keefe and Santhosh S.