Download or read book Raja Ravi Varma written by Ravi Varma and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life and works of Raja Ravi Varma, 1848-1906, famous painter from Kerala; includes reproduction of his paintings.
Download or read book Raja Ravi Varma 1848 1906 written by Ravi Varma and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book Raja Ravi Varma 'Oleographs Catalogue', a pioneering work with the exclusive publication of 110 oleographs / lithographs of Ravi Varma's paintings, giving the corresponding thematic description of the subjects covering vast topics like Hindu religion, Mythology, Sanskrit Literature such as Shakunthalam, Kadambari, Priyadarshika, etc., is written by Dr.D.Jegat Ishwari. Collection of oleographs has taken more than fifteen years of strenuous efforts and writing of the book more than two years for reference work. These prints have great antique value and have become collectors' choice. The book unlike other art publications is without obtaining courtesy from any extraneous source. It gives a comprehensive idea of Ravi Varma's oleographs, will serve as collectors' guide for antique lovers and help students of art and critics. Could be of immense use to readers who love Indian art, culture and for art Institutions / Departments. Foreword for the book is written by the Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Chennai circle and Preface by the Regional Director, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India, Chennai.
Download or read book Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850 1922 written by Partha Mitter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in India, as part of the imperial design for the westernisation of the elite, and traces the artistic evolution from unquestioning westernisation to the construction of Hindu national identity. Through a wide range of literary and pictorial sources, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India balances the study of colonial cultural institutions and networks with the ideologies of the nationalist and intellectual movements which followed. The result is a book of immense significance, both in the context of South Asian history and in the wider context of art history.
Download or read book Raja Ravi Varma the Painter Prince 1848 1906 written by Ravi Varma and published by Nesma Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color reproductions of the paintings of Ravi Varma, 1848-1906, Indian painter.
Download or read book Raja Ravi Varma Portrait of an Artist written by C. Raja Raja Varma and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diary Of C. Raja Raja Varma, Ravi Varma`S Brother, Is A Huge Source Of Information On The Accomplishmnets Of Ravi Varma And The Working Of His Lithographic Press Over A Ten-Year Period, 1894-05-1905
Download or read book Prince with a Paintbrush written by Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan and published by Red Panda. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photos of the Gods written by Christopher Pinney and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Pinney demonstrates how printed images were pivotal to India's struggle for national and religious independence. He also provides a history of printing in India.
Download or read book Hidden Truth written by Rukmini Varma and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sharp eye of Neelakantan Bhattathiripad noted the young Ravi Varma tracing lines on the sand. His son was a strange child in his opinion but he refrained from voicing it. “What would this son of his become, the scion of this strange race,” he wondered? “Always, always drawing and sketching things — was there a future in this?” His wife, Umamba Bayi indulged him too much. All this fanciful sketching, it was a dreamer’s life, thought Neelakantan. From his father, Ravi Varma learned to discipline his thoughts, from his mother the pictorial rhythms of poetry and music, and from his uncle, Raja Raja Varma, the way to express it all in concrete visual form, as he was doing on the sand. As an artist who not only keeps alive Raja Ravi Varma’s legacy, but is also his direct descendant, Rukmini Varma is a remarkable source of stories, anecdotes, and the most fascinating details about this legendary Indian painter, viewing him not only as her ancestor but also as a creative force who opened a whole new chapter in India’s artistic tradition. Rukmini Varma o?ers to unravel the story of Ravi Varma and all that made him the person he was, from a perspective that is both new but also intimate and deeply personal - a combination that is especially inviting.” - Manu S. Pillai Author, The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
Download or read book False Allies 2021 written by Manu S. Pillai and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly researched book, Manu S. Pillai uncovers a picture of the Indian princes far removed from the existing cliches and reminds us that the maharajahs were serious political actors - essential to knowing modern India.
Download or read book Raja Ravi Varma written by Ravi Varma and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life and works of Raja Ravi Varma, 1848-1906, famous painter from Kerala; includes reproduction of his paintings.
Download or read book Popular Indian Art written by Erwin Neumayer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to modern Indian Hindu iconography. Well annotated and with a large number of rare oleographs, it will appeal to art historians and those interested in popular Indian culture.
Download or read book The Painter A Life of Ravi Varma written by Deepanjana Pal and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the most famous Indian artist of his age: the darling of the royal courts; an artist whose depiction of gods and goddesses as men and women put a human face to divinities; and the entrepreneur who realized his dream of bringing art to the masses. For the first time comes a grippingly told story of Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), from his early days with the royal family of Travancore in Kerala, to the years he spent teaching himself to paint and blend European art's sensuality with Indian subjects, through to his sojourns into the royal courts of India as a celebrity portraitist, and his move to Mumbai where he started a printing press that left him bankrupt. Beautifully told, immaculately researched and full of colour, this is the first popular biography of one of India's greatest artists.
Download or read book Raja Ravi Varma written by Ranjit Desai and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude. He countered that he saw divinity in both gods and humans, and that nudity was the purest form he knew. This is the story of a little boy who grew up making charcoal sketches on freshly whitewashed temple walls and went on to be titled in the court of Thiruvananthapuram as 'Raja' for his artistic prowess. His painting of a Nair woman who worked in his wife's palace brought him wrath and recognition alike. His deep involvement with Sugandha, the Maharastrian lady, who became Menaka, Damayanti and Urvashi in his most acclaimed works caught the fancy of many critics and admirers.
Download or read book Portraits in Princely India 1700 1947 written by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Independence, the princes and regional rulers of India have mostly been seen as anachronistic figures, too closely associated with the former colonial government, and often a byword for extravagance, sybaritic lifestyles, and mild despotism. When in 1967 they were stripped of their privy purses by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, there were more protests in Britain than in India. No serious efforts have been made to put these men, and a few women, in a pictorial context, to examine the differing styles of portraiture favoured by them, and the motives behind the pictures, until now. The more one gazes at these important but hitherto neglected works of art, the more questions are raised. This book attempts to answer and interpret some of them. The arrival of European painters in late 18th century India presented a new opportunity for Indian rulers to commission self-portraits of a different kind, and also to influence indigenous artists in new styles and paint mediums. The arrival of photography brought a further opportunity for them to be pictured in different ways.
Download or read book Colonizing the Realm of Words written by Sascha Ebeling and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true tour de force, this book documents the transformation of one Indian literature, Tamil, under the impact of colonialism and Western modernity. While Tamil is a living language, it is also India's second oldest classical language next to Sanskrit, and has a literary history that goes back over two thousand years. On the basis of extensive archival research, Sascha Ebeling tackles a host of issues pertinent to Tamil elite literary production and consumption during the nineteenth century. These include the functioning and decline of traditional systems in which poet-scholars were patronized by religious institutions, landowners, and local kings; the anatomy of changes in textual practices, genres, styles, poetics, themes, tastes, and audiences; and the role of literature in the politics of social reform, gender, and incipient nationalism. The work concludes with a discussion of the most striking literary development of the time—the emergence of the Tamil novel.
Download or read book When was Modernism written by Geeta Kapur and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantage point to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world.The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and ArtWork and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section, Frames of Reference, formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avant-garde. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.Geeta Kapur is an independent art critic and curator living in New Delhi. Her extensive publications on modern Indian art include the book Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), exhibition catalogues and monographs on artists. She is currently writing a monograph on Tyeb Mehta. Her essays on cultural criticism have been widely presented in forums of art history and cultural studies. Her curatorial work includes the show Bombay/Mumbai 1992 2001 in the multi-part exhibition titled Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis , at Tate Modern, London, in 2001. Geeta Kapur is a founder-editor of the Journal of Arts & Ideas and advisory editor to Third Text. She has held research fellowships at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University. For the past three decades, [Geeta Kapur s] has been the singular dominant presence in the field to a point that her writings alone seem to have constituted the whole field of modern Indian art theory and criticism. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Biblio (Delhi), May June 2001. Geeta Kapur is a magisterial presence in the sphere of modern Indian art. [The] insistence on the primacy of bearing witness to creative practice has been the leitmotif of Kapur s work. . . . Kapur s contribution . . . is best understood by reflection on the radical change that her activity has brought about in Indian art criticism. Ranjit Hoskote, Art India (Mumbai), Vol. VI, 1, 2001. When Was Modernism is a book of essays: imaginative, interpretive, argumentative, polemical, political and, in the combined sense of all these, historical. . . . [It] provides an instance of passionate engagement that, at its best moments, verges on the poetic. Chaitanya Sambrani, ART AsiaPacific (Australia), Issue 30, 2001.
Download or read book Ecological Criticism for Our Times written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
