Fine Arts

About the Book Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictur...

A little-known art form of Orissa is illustration on palm-leaf, which flourished along with the Orissan tradition of copying kavya texts on palm-le...

Captured in Miniature reveals a magical experience that awaits us in the world of Mughal art. The lives of kings and queens, their pursuits, celebr...

Banaras is the religious captial of India. Situated on the Ganges, it contains more than 1500 temples and mosques. Almost all of the city’s five ki...

About the Book Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty yea...

About the Book - Offers a historical corrective to re-establish the legacy of YG Srimati, one of modern India's finest artists - At a time when the...

About the Book Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series o...

- Nandita Chaudhuri's paintings and poems together create a multilayered sensory experience - Works take a deep dive into peeling away the 'onion ...

Shuvaprasanna: A Man for all Seasons (H.B)

The Kedara Kalpa is a relatively little-known Shaiva text; and only slightly better known than it are the two dispersed series of paintings to whic...

The Afterlife of Silence: Still Lifes of Jogen Chowdhury (H.B)

Painting in the Kangra Valley is an attempt to survey the painting styles of Guler and Kangra, which flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries. The...

Nathdwara Paintings from the Anil Relia Collection: The Portal to Shrinathji (H.B)

The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns (H.B)

“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 a...

In the Shadow of the Devi Kumaon: Of a Land, a People, a Craft

A large bulk of Indian miniature paintings comes from Rajasthan. These miniatures are endowed with warm colours, primitive vigour, directness of ex...

Catalog of the donated paintings of Horst Metzger.

This work centers upon Manaku of Guler – older brother of the greatly celebrated Nainsukh – reconstructing whatever little is known of his life, bu...

The book is a pictorial record of an art form that is now almost completely extinct. The range of these painting is truly awe-inspiring. They not o...

A collection of work from a prolific and well-respected contemporary Indian artist.

Nicholas Roerich continues to arouse the interest of extensive scholarship, both adulatory and critical. Some give him the status of a demigod, whi...

This book is the result of the author’s long and close association with Ramkinkar Baij, one of the finest exponents of neo-Indian art and perhaps o...

This “micro art history study” documents in its first part all known samples of anasara pati-paintings, i.e. annually produced pictures on cloth wh...

This book celebrates India’s spectacular textile art. It takes the reader on a visual odyssey spanning 500 years, tracing the images created on clo...

Rabindranath Tagore’s experiments with ink and colour come alive in this book. It shows how he gradually moved from diagrammatic abstract forms, cr...

A well-researched book on the universal resonance in Indian art and culture, covering the grand Indian heritage by providing an overview of the vis...

India has an astonishingly rich variety of painting traditions. While miniature painting schools became virtually extinct with the decline of arist...

This book is perhaps the first ever to appear on a traditional painter of the past in India. Received a Certificate of Merit (Jacket, English categ...

With his Indian vision and French sens de la plastique coalescing to create a unique modernism, S. H. Raza has been a master of colours, concepts a...

Leela Mukherjee (1916–2003) was one the first women sculptors of modern India. Born in Karachi, she was educated at Banaras and Santiniketan, where...

An exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist. Over the past several years, renowned South African artist Willi...

This book on the Kasauli Art Centre, located at Ivy Lodge, Kasauli – which functioned as a centre for the arts and was actively engaged in numerous...

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 wo...

• Showcases nearly 2000 never-before published miniature paintings of the Mahabharata by Allah Baksh, from late 17th century Mewar • Features fine...

Heralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and India’s cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (1900–1977) was a dancer and choreographer who creat...