Download or read book Dance In Indian Painting written by and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dancing to the Flute written by Jim Masselos and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What strikes everyone on their first encounter with India and its art is the pervasiveness of music and dance everywhere at all times - India itself is a total experience in which music and dance are embedded as a dominant element within the overwhelming racial, linguistic and cultural variety. Central to religious worship, to love, to the expression of every spiritual and emotional nuance possible, music and dance permeate Indian life."--GoogleBooks.
Download or read book Classical Indian Dance written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of many years of pain staking research in a field, which had been neglected by art historians, and thus presenting an idealistic view of the whole tradition of Indian art and aesthetics. This definitive work on the inherent interrelationship of the Indian arts is a path-breaking endeavour, treading into a domain which no one had explored. For that to happen, the author has delved deep into enormous mass of literature on the subject and has also surveyed the portrayal of dance figures in ancient temples. With Dr Kapila Vatsyayan’s profound knowledge of various dance forms as a performing artist of her own standing and having studied the sculptures and artefacts minutely, the book emerges so scholarly emanating the wisdom and know-how of a persona, endowed with the unique combination of a researcher, an art historian and an aesthetician par excellence. The book vividly presents, analyses and critiques the varied facets of Indian aesthetics, especially the theory and technique of classical Indian dance, while doing a penetrating study of interrelationship that dancing has with literature, sculpture and music. In doing so, it surveys and analyses the contribution of great Sanskrit authors, theoreticians, playwrights of ancient and classical India such as Bharata, Bhāsa, Kālidāsa, Śūdraka, Bhavabhūti, Abhinavagupta, Jayadeva and many more along with numerous Bhāṣā scholars of arts, aesthetics and literature, covering each and every nook and corner of the Indian subcontinent. This highly scholarly work should invoke keen enthusiasm among Sanskritists, art historians, dancers and students of varied art forms alike, and should pave the way for ongoing researches on all the topics covered within its scope.
Download or read book Art of Indian Dancing written by Projesh Banerji and published by New Delhi : Sterling Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DANCING IN INDIAN PAINTING written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southwest Indian Painting written by Clara Lee Tanner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists names and activities by Indian artists and includes photographs of their work.
Download or read book Native Moderns written by Bill Anthes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.
Download or read book A Panorama of Indian Dances written by Yu. Es Kr̥ṣṇarāv and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bharata Natyam written by Sunil Kothari and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archer written by Shruti Swamy and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.” —San Francisco Chronicle “[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.” —NPR In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya’s childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling expectations of her life with a vivid imagination until one day she peeks into a classroom where girls are learning kathak, a dazzling, centuries-old dance form that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Her pursuit of artistic transcendence through kathak soon becomes the organizing principle of her life, even as she leaves home for college and falls in complicated love with her best friend. As the uncertain future looms, she must ultimately confront the tensions between romantic love, her art, and the legacy of her own imperfect mother. Lyrical and deeply sensual, with writing as mesmerizing as kathak itself, Shruti Swamy’s The Archer is a bold portrait of a singular woman coming of age as an artist—navigating desire, duty, and the limits of the body. It is also an electrifying and utterly immersive story about the transformative power of art, and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready.
Download or read book INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on 1974 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is a pioneer in Performing arts. This books deals with five classical dance forms of india in detai, viz., Bharatanatyam,Kathakali,orissi,manipuri and Kathak.
Download or read book Studies in Indian Dancing as Depicted in Painting and Sculpture and the Representations of the Musical R gas in Painting written by Moti Chandra and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only since the last fifty years that the study of Indian Archaeology has been taken up seriously. The work done within such a little time has been tremendous considering the difficulties which the archaeologists had to face. The results of these researches have been published in volumes of archaeological reports. But so far the history of Indian art has only been written in the round. The art-critics have been mainly concerned with the controversial questions of dates and the unfruitful discussion of the superiority of western art over eastern and vice versa. It is high time that the efforts of art-critics were directed to the more specific problems of Indian Art. The present studies were undertaken with a view to discover what light the painting and sculpture of India can throw on various phases of Indian dancing. The dancing and musical scenes which are described in the first part of the thesis give us intimate glimpses Into the life and customs of the people. There is the splendour of the royal courts and the stuff of peoples' lives on festive occasions, portrayed in Indian sculpture and painting. From the point of view of the study of Indian costume and ornament, too, the dancing scenes I have dealt with furnish us with a wealth of information not hitherto revealed. The musical instruments have also been described and their Sanskrit or vernacular equivalents given. The study of the Mudras or 'momentary hand-poise' also forms a corollary to the study of Indian dancing. The Mudras which at first appear to be spontaneous are meant to convey definite meaning to the spectators, I have given descriptions of these from Bharata and Nandikesvara in the footnotes. In the second part of my work I have considered the representations of musical Bagas in painting. Apart from the emotional reactions which these paintings were intended to evoke in the critic, they are a veritable encyclopaedia of Hindu culture from the 17th century onwards. A vexed point of discussion concerning these paintings is the question of their dates and their places of origin. Style is the only means by which their places of origin may be determined. But it is not always the surest guide. I have tried, however, to ascribe dates to these paintings with reference to stylistic similarities so far as can be discerned from the Johnson Collection made in the late eighteenth century. This collection contains many albums of the Ragamala paintings, some executed in the Rajput style, while others in the Mughal style, with the names of the artists inscribed at the bottom. The language of these Ragamalas is coarse as compared with the beautiful lyrics of the Vaisnava poets. To add to the difficulties the inscriptions are bristling with the mistakes of the copyists. I have, however, made an attempt to give the text of all in the thirty-six ragas and raginis from the album Or. 2821, Or. 8838, Or. 8839 and Add. 26,550 (B.M.) The album Or. 2821 consists of thirty-four folios. The text is in the dialect used by Jayasi. The other three albums give the same text. Full text of the dhyamantras has been given from Or. 8838 which gives the most correct reading. The variants in the other two manuscripts are noted down. In translating these pieces due care has been taken to make the translations literal. It has been sought to collate and check the results of archaeology with reference to literature.
Download or read book American Indian Painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas written by Dorothy Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Southwestern Indians, painting was a natural part of all the arts and ceremonies through which they expressed their perception of the universe and their sense of identification with nature. It was wholly lacking in individualism, included no portraits, singled out no artists. But the roving life of the Plains Indians produced a more personal art. Their painted hides were records of an individual's exploits intended, not to supplicate or appease unearthly powers, but to gain prestige within the tribe and proclaim invincibility to an enemy. Plains painting served man-to-man relationships, Southwestern painting those of man to nature, man to God. Such characteristics, and the ways they persist in contemporary Indian painting, are documented by the 157 examples Miss Dunn has chosen to illustrate her story. Thirty-three of these pictures, in full color, are here published for the first time.
Download or read book An Exhibition of Music and Dance in Indian Art at the Royal Scottish Museum Chambers Street Edinburgh 1963 written by Philip S. Rawson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India s Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective written by Dr Margaret E Walker and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.
Download or read book South Indian Paintings written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum's collection of South Indian paintings consists of around 1000 items ranging from the 17th to the 20th century and representing a wide variety of themes and techniques. Only a very few examples from this major collection have been published before. In this book the collection will be catalogued in full, and 250 of the most important items will be reproduced in colour. The paintings will be described and listed according to the their topics (Hindu mythology; castes, trades and occupations; natural history drawings; painted narratives; India observed) and according to the medium on which they were executed (paper, cloth, leather, mica). Each section will begin with a brief introduction outlining the essential stylistic and iconographic features. Among this material are a number of highly interesting albums such as a set of 91 paintings depicting Hindu mythology, dating from the early decades of the 19th century. More unusual items are the long painted scrolls from Andhra illustrating local mythological narratives, the painted cloths from Tamil Nadu depicting the Ramayana epic, and paintings on paper used by the storytellers of northern Karnataka.
