Download or read book The Indian Portrait 3 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third catalog in the series of Indian Portraits focusing on printed portraits. There are over 150 portraits, from earliest being printed in 1580 all the way up to 1948. The printed portraits in different graphic media include woodcut, copper engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, lithograph & chromolithograph. They were exhibited at Surat in March 2014 and at Ahmedabad in August 2014.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 1560 1860 written by Rosemary Crill and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the portrait in India between 1560 and 1860 served as an official chronicle or eye-witness account, as a means of revealing the intimate moments of everyday life, and as a tool for propaganda. Yet the proliferation and mastery of Indian portraiture in the Mughal and Rajput courts brought a new level of artistry and style to the genre.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait VI written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth exhibition and catalogue in the Indian Portrait series, from the collection of Anil Relia, focuses on the introduction of photography in India and its evolution up to Independence. The daguerreotype, ambrotype, carte de viste, cabinet cards, stereoviews, etc. are the different mediums that helped to preserve history. Photographs by famous names like Bourne & Shepherd, Lala Deen Dayal, Darogah Abbas Ali, Shamsuddin Lukmanji, S. Hormusjee, Shapur N. Bhedwar, Hurrychand Chintamon, etc. are shown in the exhibition.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 4 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mughal documentation is known as the best recorded history of the world. The catalogue is an attempt to showcase the lineage of the Mughal emperors who ruled in India and their heritage, in terms of their lives, pursuits, art, conquests, administration alongwith a peep into their shrewd politics. All works are part of a Mughal Muraqqa compiled by Hakim Ahsanallah Khan, who was the chief adviser of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, in the year 1270 A. H. (1854 A. D.). They were exhibited in October 2014.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 10 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth exhibition in the series will showcase classical paintings from all across India. The exhibition will cover 300 years and a vast geographic region from Jammu to Thanjavur, allowing viewers to compare how different patrons wished to be remembered and observe how historical events shaped India’s painting traditions.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 5 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog details the journey of the academic realism and colonial influence that impacted Raja Ravi Varma’s works and his contemporaries like Rustom Siodia, Pestonji Bomanji, Abalal Rahiman, M V Dhurandhar, A X Trindade, M F Pithawalla, Fyzee Rahamin, Ravi Shankar Raval, Ghasiram Sharma and many others.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 8 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition catalogue covers the art of portraiture which flourished in the royal courts of Rajasthan. Rajput rulers, warriors, heads of religious institutions and rich and influential merchants were the major patrons or art and had their portraits painted for visual documentation, political gifts and also as valuable art objects.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait III written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Portrait written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue showcasing the artistic journey of portraits from miniature to modern art. It starts with the miniature paintings done by different schools like Pahadi, Rajasthani, Central Province, Deccan, Company period, Bengal, Colonial Influence and goes all the way up to modern art. The catalogue has 37 portraits which were exhibited in October 2010.
Download or read book The McKenney Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians written by James David Horan and published by Outlet. This book was released on 1972 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of prominent Indians supplemented by capsule biographies provide insight into the spirit and character of the American Indian
Download or read book India written by Patrick French and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick French brings one of the globe's most dynamic nations springing to life. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the country, sensitivity to its subtler nuances and a wealth of research.
Download or read book The Indians written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Compelling Work On The Cultural Character Of The Indian People&Both Provocative And Revealing -Shyam Benegal In Outlook A Remarkably Perceptive Analysis Of Indian Character -Khushwant Singh In This Bold, Illuminating And Superbly Readable Study, India S Foremost Psychoanalyst And Cultural Commentator Sudhir Kakar And Anthropologist Katharina Kakar Investigate The Nature Of Indian-Ness . What Makes An Indian Recognizably So To The Rest Of The World, And, More Importantly, To His Or Her Fellow Indians? For, As The Authors Point Out, Despite Ethnic Differences That Are Characteristic More Of Past Empires Than Modern Nation States, There Is An Underlying Unity In The Great Diversity Of India That Needs To Be Recognized. Looking At What Constitutes A Common Indian Identity, The Authors Examine In Detail The Predominance Of Family, Community And Caste In Our Everyday Lives, Our Attitudes To Sex And Marriage, Our Prejudices, Our Ideas Of The Other (Explored In A Brilliant Chapter On Hindu-Muslim Conflict), And Our Understanding Of Health, Right And Wrong, And Death. In The Final Chapter, They Provide Fascinating Insights Into The Indian Mind, Shaped Largely By The Culture S Dominant, Hindu World View. Drawing Upon Three Decades Of Original Research And Sources As Varied As The Mahabharata, The Kamasutra, The Writings Of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood Movies And Popular Folklore, Sudhir And Katharina Kakar Have Produced A Rich And Revealing Portrait Of The Indian People. An Important Book&A Readable And Carefully Considered Statement On The Issue Of Identity Pavan Varma In India Today
Download or read book The Indian Portrait VII written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh exhibition in the series, focuses on the development of portraiture after the coming of the camera to India. It fuelled the enthusiasm of the Indian artists and photographic studios mushroomed across the country. Artists started using photographs to enhance portrait paintings, they developed a new aesthetic that integrated aspects of painting and photography in one image.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 9 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth exhibition in the Indian Portrait series focuses on the introduction of Parsi portraiture in India and an insight on their art, culture and education etc. Paintings, photographs, CDVs, cabinet card albums, engravings, lithographs, prints & collectibles etc. are the different mediums that helped to preserve history. It contains over 170 portraits and was exhibited in December 2018.
Download or read book Wonder of the Age written by John Guy and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.
Download or read book The Indian Portrait 11 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh exhibition featuring photographs by Jyoti Bhatt, capturing his life and of his contemporaries through Portraits.
Download or read book The Theory of Citrasutras in Indian Painting written by Isabella Nardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a distinct gap in Indian scholarship, this original account presents a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting as described in the Sanskrit treatises. Drawing on the experiences of significant painters, Nardi suggests a new way of reading and understanding these concepts.
