ISSN |
09721444 (softcover) |
Title |
Readings on painting from 75 years of Marg / edited by Dipti Khera and Yael Rice |
Publisher |
Mumbai : Marg Foundation, 2023 |
Physical desc. |
301 pages, 15 unnumbered pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 33 cm. |
Series |
Marg publications (Mumbai, India) 74 |
Note |
Special issue of Marg : a magazine of the arts (volume 74, number 4 and volume 75, number 1, June-September 2023). |
CB illustrations: page 140, figure 1 (In 07A.4); page 222, figure 1 (In 02, f. 213r); page 225, figure 4 (In 02, f. 271v); page 243, figure 14 (In 54, f. 40a); page 243, figure 15 (In 02, f. 44b). |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Section 1: Patron, place and politics. The neglected aspects of Ajanta art / Hermann Goetz -- Leaves from Rajasthan: a dated Bhagavata purana of the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, Poona, and notes on the chronology of early Rajput painting: an excerpt / Karl Khandalavala -- Miniature painting: a photo essay / Saryu Doshi -- A sub-imperial Mughal manuscript: the Ramayana of Abd al-Rahim Khankhanan / John Seyller -- Calcutta and the early growth of the Bengal school of painting: a photo essay / Amita Ray -- The painted scrolls of the Garoda picture showmen of Gujarat / Jyotindra Jain -- The 'Murshidabad' pats of Bengal / T. Richard Blurton -- Section 2: The agency and knowledge of painters. Maithil painting / W.G. Archer -- Mansur / Asok Kumar Das -- The saving power of Soron: Sahibdin of Udaipur and the Sukarakshetra Mahatmya / Andrew Topsfield -- Pahari painting: the family as the basis of style: an excerpt / B.N. Goswamy -- Artistic agency in painted narratives: the case of the Chandayan manuscripts / Qamar Adamjee -- The painted scrolls of the Deccani picture showmen: seventeenth to nineteenth century: a photo essay / Jagdish Mittal -- Section 3: Painting in motion. Mughals in the early temples of Alchi: a photo essay / Roger Goepper -- The Ni'mat nama: a landmark in Malwa painting / Robert Skelton -- Recycled images: overpainting in early Mughal art: a photo essay / John Seyller -- Rembrandt and the inspiration of India: a photo essay / Stephanie Schrader with other authors -- Holi in the Zenana: genre, style and sociability / Debra Diamond -- Towards a new naturalism: portraiture in Murshidabad and Avadh, 1750-80 / Jeremiah P. Losty -- Portraiture at the Tanjore Maratha court: toward modernity in the early 19th century / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Section 4: Painting creates space. Warli photographs / Pupul Jayakar -- The tradition of wall-painting in Kerala: a photo essay / Mulk Raj Anand -- Tirupati paintings and Srikalahasti cloths / Anna L. Dallapiccola -- The wall-paintings of the Badal Mahal: an excerpt / Milo Cleveland Beach -- Allegories of good kingship: wall paintings in the Qila Mubarak at Patiala: an excerpt / Kavita Singh -- Painting the towns: Shekhawati's murals: a photo essay / Ilay Cooper -- Section 5: Pleasure, wonder and emotion. Indian illustrated manuscripts of the Kalilah wa Dimnah, Anvar-i Suhayli, and Iyar-i Danish: a photo essay / Kalpana Desai, Karl Khandalavala -- Portraits of Ibrahim Adil Shah II: an excerpt / Moti Chandra -- Music, art and power in 'Adil Shahi Bijapur, c. 1570-1630 / Katherine Butler Schofield -- Cosmic sympathies and painting at Akbar's court / Yael Rice -- Documenting the fabulous: the 'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat of the National Museum: a photo essay / Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami -- Congress of kings: notes on a painting of Muhammad Shah Rangeela having sex / Kavita Singh -- Jagvilasa: picturing worlds of pleasure and power in 18th-century Udaipur painting / Dipti Khera -- Section 6: Canonization and originality. Portraits of 'a noble queen': Chand Bibi in the historical imaginary / Deborah Hutton -- Painting in Kutch: surprises and delights: a photo essay / B.N. Goswamy -- Authenticity and excellence in narrative paintings from Rajasthan: an addendum / Vishakha N. Desai -- Harijan paintings of Mithila: a photo essay / Neel Rekha -- Folk artists of Bengal and contemporary images: a case of reverse appropriation / Jyotindra Jain -- A market for fakes: 'miniature' painting in Rajasthan, 1960-2000 / Varunika Saraf. |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02 |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 54 |
Painting -- India -- History |
Painting, Indic |
Painting, Mogul Empire |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire |
Manuscripts, Indic |
Added name(s) |
Khera, Dipti |
Rice, Yael |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Marg Foundation (Mumbai, India) |