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Old stacks, new leaves: the arts of the book in South Asia

Old stacks, new leaves: the arts of the book in South Asia
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ISBN 0295751118 (hardcover)
9780295751115 (hardcover)
Title Old stacks, new leaves : the arts of the book in South Asia / edited by Sonal Khullar
Publisher Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2023
Physical desc. xiii, 313 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index.
Contents Introduction: love in the stacks / Sonal Khullar -- Holding and carrying. A book and the goddess: the Devimahatmya from palm leaf to paper / Jinah Kim -- Artist project 1: the travels of a king / T. Shanaathanan -- Covering and captioning. Clothing the book: texts, textiles, and an ethics of care / Sylvia Houghteling -- Meaning in the margins: Kannada captions in a Deccani Sindbadnama / Laura Weinstein -- Artist project 2: after the plague / Parismita Singh -- Cutting and pasting. Books that bind: the Persianate album and its widespread circulation / Yael Rice -- Migrations of media: photographic albums, prints, and wall paintings / Holly Shaffer -- Artist project 3: Queen Victoria's favorite soup / Naila Mahmood -- Reading and recycling. Lithographic assemblages: the Urdu art book in the age of print / Iftikhar Dadi -- Books and the matter of art: notes on materiality, dematerialization, and value / Sonal Khullar -- Artist project 4: Tasavvur (Imagination) / Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi -- Crafting and collecting. Quink on my hands / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- In my father's trunk / Anand A. Yang.
Subject Illustrated books -- South Asia -- History
Books -- South Asia -- History
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic
Added name(s) Khullar, Sonal 1978- editor
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