Fine Arts

मकबूल 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। माहिर चित्रकार, रंगीन व्यक्तित्व, अलग किस्म के फिल्मकार, महंगी से महंगी जिसकावर्णनों के आशिक, नंगे पांवों चलने ...

Lines from an Artistic Life explores the drawings of eminent Indian artist K M Adimoolam, well-known in India and internationally for his meticulous pen-and-ink drawings on subjects ranging from realistic portraits of Mahatma Gandhi to idealized p...

“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 between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse.”—Anselm Kief...

A large bulk of Indian miniature paintings comes from Rajasthan. These miniatures are endowed with warm colours, primitive vigour, directness of expression and all that corresponds to the unique land of Rajasthan. They encompass its fun and festiv...

The book is a simple commemoration of the work of master potter Ira Chaudhuri over seven decades – primarily through more than 150 images of her works, juxtaposed with quotes from the artist. It includes a valuable essay by Ira Chaudhuri which, be...

Self-expression is a fundamental human drive. The need for self-expression can occur through many means both creative and mundane. The Expressive Instinct explains how the complexity of human experiences and the need to express them manifests more...

About the Book On 22nd February 2015, Syed Haider Raza turns 93. Widely acknowledged as a master of modern Indian art, for nearly six decades his work, vision and life have attracted critical attention from various points of view. Raza returned to...

Based on extensive interviews with the artist, the volume includes some of his best known work, lanscapes as well as the more rarely seen black and white drawings and pastels. Ella Datta's eminently readable account of the artist's life and work i...

The Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur, Rajasthan, is one of the finest museums of the 19th century with a repository of 19,000 objects. It was envisioned by Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II and executed by his successor Sawai Madho Singh II at a time when J...

Traces of India investigates the roles played by photographs of Indian architecture from the late eighteenth century. The inquiry stretches from their pre-history to their migration into book illustrations, calendar art and religious imagery. Beyo...

About the Book Nilima Sheikh's art practice from 1969 to 2012 forms the subject of Trace Retrace . The book is structured in three parts: visual, discursive, and a combination of the two. The largest narrative is visual - a selection from Nilima S...

A rich record of a complex past, this book is a wonderful combination of striking images and succinct text that explores the development of the genre of portrait-painting in the Indian subcontinent over a period of 300 years; focusing on the devel...

About the Book This book was first published in Hindi under the title Hindi Alochana mein Canon-Nirman ki Prakriya in 2015. It was acclaimed as one of the first critical studies of the processes of canonization ( pratimanikaran ) in Hindi. Indeed,...

The mural painted on the huge dome in the lobby of ITC Maurya Sheraton in New Delhi is a larger-than-life representation of our times one that covers various facets of Krishen Khanna’s work from his long career. The mural is not exactly contempora...

Iranna G.R.’s art is thought to be a stylistic challenge to postmodernism, using instead the representative, idealistic and modernist language of contemporary Indian painting. This book is a meditation on the life and work of the artist, emphasizi...

About the Book A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When the literary conference that took him there ends and his fellow writers return to In...

About the Book With this generously photographed guide in hand, even beginners will be able to create fashionable jewelry, home accessories, and religious objects with the timeless beauty of mosaics. Distinguished artist Ronit Attias takes newcome...

K.M. Adimoolam’s art resists easy categorization. He brings to his work a genuine spirit of enquiry, and a continually rejuvenating wonder at the generative cosmic possibilities of art. He makes profoundly aesthetic choices, bringing to his abstra...

For nearly three centuries, the Urdu ghazal has been beloved of connoisseur and layman alike. Its hypnotic rhythmic qualities, its exquisite interweaving of human and divine love, its joy in the good things of life as well as its mystic austerity,...