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Art History (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Dana Arnold
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• Author(s): Dana Arnold • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: European - GeneralArt history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introd...
View full detailsOn Modern Art
Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAbout the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short bu...
View full detailsThe Sexual Night
Pascal Quignard
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• Author(s): Pascal Quignard • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralIn The Sexual Night, renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkab...
View full detailsTypography (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Paul Luna
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• Author(s): Paul Luna • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: GeneralTypography, the art of designing printed words, was once the domain of an elite few artists but has become an area with which millio...
View full detailsDada And Surrealism (VSI): Very Short Introduction
David Hopkins
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• Author(s): David Hopkins • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: History - GeneralThe avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in...
View full detailsCorrespondence : Pablo Picasso
Picasso Pablo
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• Author(s): Picasso Pablo • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: LettersPablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth centur...
View full detailsNation Region Modernity: The Art of K. Venkatappa
Deeptha Achar, Pushpamala N.
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• Author(s): Deeptha Achar, Pushpamala N. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis• Publisher Imprint: Routledge India• Subject: Fine Arts This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappa’s life (1886–1965), his works and the political and cultural ...
View full detailsContemporary Art (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Julian Stallabrass
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• Author(s): Julian Stallabrass • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryContemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing glo...
View full detailsModern Art (VSI): Very Short Introduction
David Cottington
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• Author(s): David Cottington • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Movements - ModernismAs public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general re...
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Lionardo Da Vinci, Irma A. Richter, Martin Kemp
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• Author(s): Lionardo Da Vinci | Irma A. Richter | Martin Kemp • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Movements - RenaissanceMost of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Som...
View full detailsThe Kailas At Ellora: A New View of a Misunderstood Masterwork
Roger Vogler, Peeyush Sekhasaria
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• Author(s): Roger Vogler | Peeyush Sekhasaria • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts
Amrita Sher-Gil: Art And Life
Yashodhara Dalmia
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• Author(s): Yashodhara Dalmia • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: History - GeneralUnacknowledged during her life and considered an icon post her death, between these polarities lies the journey an...
View full detailsSojourns Of A Painter: Shyamal Dutta Ray and His Times
Mrinal Ghosh
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• Author(s): Mrinal Ghosh • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine ArtsThe imagery in Ray’s paintings come from his personal experiences. It is this visual world and its impact that are revealed in his work, wit...
View full detailsSUNFLOWERS: Incredible Journeys of Epic Women Artists from India
Sujata Parashar
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• Author(s): Sujata Parashar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Fine ArtsFor a long time, women artists, particularly in India, did not have it easy. So, what contributes to a woman artist's success? Is it grit, dete...
View full detailsM. F. Husain: Kala Ka karmu
Pradeep Chandra
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• Author(s): Pradeep Chandra • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Artsमकबूल फिदा हुसेन: इस नाम से जुड़े अनगिनत खयाल और किस्से उन लोगों के जहन में हैं, जो किंवदंती बन चुके इस कलाकार की शख्सियत से वाकिफ हैं। माह...
View full detailsBarefoot Across The Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain & the Idea of India
Sumathi Ramaswamy
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• Author(s): Sumathi Ramaswamy • Publisher: Yoda Press • Publisher Imprint: Yoda Press • Subject: Fine ArtsThis book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably Indiaa (TM)s most iconic contemporary a...
View full detailsAdult Jigsaw Gustav Klimt: Adele Bloch Bauer: 1000 Piece Jigsaw
Flame Tree Studio
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• Author(s): Flame Tree Studio • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Non-Classifiable1000-pieces. Shrink-wrapped, sturdy box (size 10 x 10 x 2 ins). High quality jigsaw puzzle. Finished Jigsaw size 29 x 20 in...
View full detailsWilliamson (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Williamson
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• Author(s): Williamson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousAbout the Book Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the devotional ...
View full detailsThe Art Of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India
Karin Zitzewitz
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• Author(s): Karin Zitzewitz • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine ArtsWritten in the wake of the widely publicized attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M.F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a p...
View full detailsGifts Of Earth: Terracottas & Clay Sculptures of India
Stephen P. Huyler
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• Author(s): Stephen P. Huyler • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine ArtsClay has been essential to Indian culture past and present. It has been a perfect vehicle for Indian creativity throughout the ages. Th...
View full detailsRajasthani Miniatures
Daljeet, Dr
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• Author(s): Daljeet | Dr • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseA large bulk of Indian miniature paintings comes from Rajasthan. These miniatures are endowed with warm colours, pri...
View full detailsIn the Absence of Jagannatha: The Anasara Paintings Replacing The Jagannatha Icon In Puri And South Orissa
Eberhard Fischer
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• Author(s): Eberhard Fischer • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine ArtsThis “micro art history study” documents in its first part all known samples of anasara pati-paintings, i.e. annually produced pictures on...
View full detailsIndian Painting
Dallapiccola, Editor Anna L Author
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• Author(s): Dallapiccola | Editor Anna L Author • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: History - GeneralIndia has an astonishingly rich variety of painting traditions. While miniature painting sch...
View full detailsRamkinkar Vaij Sculptures
Devi Prasad
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• Author(s): Devi Prasad • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Sculpture & InstallationRamkinkar Vaij (1906-1980), a significant artist of twentieth century India, is regarded as the first m...
View full detailsThe Hindi Canon: Intellectuals, Processes, Criticism
Mrityunjay Tripathi
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• Author(s): Mrityunjay Tripathi • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - IndicAbout the Book This book was first published in Hindi under the title Hindi Alochana mein Canon-Nirman ki Prak...
View full detailsTemple Potters Of Puri
Louise Allison Cort, Purna Chandra Mishra
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• Author(s): Louise Allison Cort | Purna Chandra Mishra • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts
Sketches Scribbles Drawings
K.G. Subramanyan
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• Author(s): K.G. Subramanyan • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Techniques - Drawing - GeneralK.G. Subramanyam, widely recognized as one of the India's major modern artists. Book in good c...
View full detailsLines From An Artistic Life: The Drawings of Adimoolam
Krishen Khanna, Aditi De, Jehangir Sabavala
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• Author(s): Krishen Khanna | Aditi De | Jehangir Sabavala • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralLines from an Artistic Life explores the drawings of eminent Indian a...
View full detailsPainting In the Kangra Valley
Vijay Sharma
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• Author(s): Vijay Sharma • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - Indian & South AsianPainting in the Kangra Valley is an attempt to survey the painting styles of Guler and Kangra, which...
View full detailsIn Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
Anselm Kiefer
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• Author(s): Anselm Kiefer • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: General“I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In...
View full detailsRapture: The Art Of Indian Textiles
Rahul Jain
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• Author(s): Rahul Jain • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Textile & CostumeThis book celebrates India’s spectacular textile art. It takes the reader on a visual odyssey spanning 500 years,...
View full detailsRanga Roopa GodsWordsImages
Goswamy, B N
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• Author(s): Goswamy | B N • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine ArtsThe delights of Indian art and poetry are brought to the young reader. A new world opens up, through some of the most important images of god...
View full detailsPhulkari From Punjab: Anu H. Gupta
Anu H. Gupta, Shalina Mehta
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• Author(s): Anu H. Gupta | Shalina Mehta • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine ArtsThis book explores the history and revival of Phulkari embroidery in Punjab, showcasing over 350 pictures and stories behind e...
View full detailsBombay Mosaic Of Modern Culture
Sujata Patel & Alice Thorner/Alice Thorner
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• Author(s): Sujata Patel & Alice Thorner/Alice Thorner • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis work is a broad inter-disciplinary approach to present day conditions in Bomba...
View full detailsTibetan Art Niyogi
Chandra, Lokesh
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• Author(s): Chandra | Lokesh • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - ChineseWritten by an authoritative scholar of Tibetan Buddhism Presents many works from rare private collections Tibet -...
View full detailsThe Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship
Paul Glassman- Judy Dyki
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• Author(s): Paul Glassman- Judy Dyki • Publisher: T&F • Publisher Imprint: FacetPub. • BISAC: General
Mohan Samant Boxset
Ranjit Hoskote, Marcella Sirhandi, Jeffrey Wechsler
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• Author(s): Ranjit Hoskote | Marcella Sirhandi | Jeffrey Wechsler • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsMohan Samant (1924-2004), among the earliest of the post-I...
View full detailsKaavad Tradition Of Rajasthan: A Portable Pilgrimage
Nina Sabnani
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• Author(s): Nina Sabnani • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book leads us on a journey to uncover the myths and mysteries of the unique oral-storytelling tradition o...
View full detailsWalk In The Woods: The Art of Paramjit Singh
Ella Datta
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• Author(s): Ella Datta • Publisher: Yoda Press • Publisher Imprint: Yoda Press • Subject: Fine ArtsBased on extensive interviews with the artist, the volume includes some of his best known work, lanscapes as well as the more rarely seen black an...
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Kumkum Sangari
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• Author(s): Kumkum Sangari • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryAbout the Book Nilima Sheikh's art practice from 1969 to 2012 forms the subject of Trace Retrace . The boo...
View full detailsThe China Sketchbook
I.allen Sealy
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• Author(s): I.allen Sealy • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China ju...
View full detailsThe Art Of Adimoolam
K.M. Adimoolam, Gayatri Sinha
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• Author(s): K.M. Adimoolam | Gayatri Sinha • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine ArtsK.M. Adimoolam’s art resists easy categorization. He brings to his work a genuine spirit of enquiry, and a continually rej...
View full detailsSlivers Of A Mirror: Glimpses of the Ghazal
Shama Futehally
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• Author(s): Shama Futehally • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: GeneralFor nearly three centuries, the Urdu ghazal has been beloved of connoisseur and layman alike. Its hypnotic rhythmic qual...
View full detailsOxford Readings in Indian Art
Goswamy B.N (Ed.)
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• Author(s): Goswamy B.N (Ed.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe world of art is complex and challenging, more so in India because the documentation here is remarkably thin what...
View full detailsNew Narratives: Contemporary Art of India
Betty Seid, Johan Pijnappel
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• Author(s): Betty Seid | Johan Pijnappel • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine ArtsThe journey from modern to contemporary art in India continues to be one from indigenous to global intersecting with interna...
View full detailsMy Sweet Home: Childhood Stories from a Corner of the City
Samina Mishra
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• Author(s): Samina Mishra • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine Arts
Ganesh Haloi: The Feeling Eye
Ganesh Haloi
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• Author(s): Ganesh Haloi • Publisher: Mapin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: MapinPub • Subject: Fine ArtsGanesh Haloi (1936), an artist of the 20th century, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) moved to Calcutta after the Partition i...
View full detailsFire And Other Images
Paritosh Sen
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• Author(s): Paritosh Sen • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - Indian & South AsianAbout the Book Fire and Other Images comprises a selection of prose pieces by Paritosh Sen, origin...
View full detailsChitra-pothi: Illustrated Palm-leaf Manuscripts from Orissa
J.P. Das
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• Author(s): J.P. Das • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine ArtsA little-known art form of Orissa is illustration on palm-leaf, which flourished along with the Orissan tradition of copying kavya texts on palm-l...
View full detailsNathdwara Paintings from the Anil Relia Collection: The Portal to Shrinathji
Kalyan Krishna, Kay Talwar
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• Author(s): Kalyan Krishna | Kay Talwar • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralNathdwara Paintings from the Anil Relia Collection: The Portal to Shrinat...
View full detailsThe Elephant in the Room: Women Draw Their World
Spring Col.
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• Author(s): Spring Col. • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: GeneralThis book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, an...
View full detailsDrawings To Murder Magic
Evelyne Grossman, Donald Nicholson-Smith
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• Author(s): Evelyne Grossman | Donald Nicholson-Smith • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: European - FrenchA poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, Antonin Artaud was ...
View full detailsTreasures: Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
Shobita Punja
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• Author(s): Shobita Punja • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book highlights treasures of the Salar Jung Museum, showcasing the extraordinary personal collection of the Sal...
View full detailsRabindranath Tagore: His World Of Art
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsA collection of work from a prolific and well-respected contemporary Indian artist.
In The Name Of The Mother
R. Chakravarty
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• Author(s): R. Chakravarty • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine ArtsHis mother’s gone, there’s no one to cook hot rice when it’s evening . . . No one to say, ‘Son, sit near my lap and eat.’ ‘Ma, from Dusk...
View full detailsMastering Copperplate Calligraphy
Eleanor Winters
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• Author(s): Eleanor Winters • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Techniques - CalligraphyDeveloped by English handwriting masters in the 18th century, copperplate calligraphy is admired for its fluidity and...
View full detailsA Pottery Story: The Work of Ira Chaudhuri
Ira Chaudhuri
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• Author(s): Ira Chaudhuri • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Techniques - SculptingThe book is a simple commemoration of the work of master potter Ira Chaudhuri over seven decades – primaril...
View full detailsCreativity in Indian Dance: Uday Shankar's Autumn Years, 1960-1977
Sulakshana Sen
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• Author(s): Sulakshana Sen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Fine ArtsHeralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and India’s cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (1900–1977) was a dancer and cho...
View full detailsCezanne A Study of His Development
Roger Fry
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• Author(s): Roger Fry • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • Subject: Fine Arts, • BISAC: General""Cezanne: A Study of His Development"" is a book written by Roger Fry, which provides an in-depth analysis ...
View full detailsArt and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Rudolf Arnheim
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• Author(s): Rudolf Arnheim • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Criticism & TheorySince its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itsel...
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