Fine Arts

About the Book Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the devotional works of the Renaissance period, to the in...

Timeless Visions Contemporary Art of India--From the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection [Paperback] NA

About the Book Theatre in New Zealand began as a tool of the British Empire, imported along with Christianity, seeds and other commodities as a way...

Written 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 promi...

Sonabai Rajawar was one of the few self-taught artists of India, whose story expresses the capacity of human beings everywhere to meet their challe...

The imagery in Ray’s paintings come from his personal experiences. It is this visual world and its impact that are revealed in his work, with his c...

About the Book -For the first time in book form, the popular images of devotion and worship, commissioned by ordinary devotees of Pushti Marg, have...

Pathfinders is an invaluable collection that traces the evolution of different art forms in India. Featuring in-depth and visually rich narratives ...

Paritosh Sen (1918–2008) towered above many of his contemporaries in the rare quality of his creative personality unwithered by age and exuding an ...

About the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short but incisive essays that make up this important...

Cochin-a historic port city on the Malabar Coast in Kerala has for centuries remained a centre of maritime trade along the Indian Ocean. These comm...

About the Book This is a collection of 19 projects for jewellery and accessories using materials that were intended for different uses altogether. ...

InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia brings together essays by leading critics and curators to examine modern and contemporary art practice and its dis...

Published to accompany the 2014 art exhibits at Museum of Sacred Arts, Belgium.

About the Book In certain villages of West Bengal, the rural economy is driven by rather unusual professions. One cluster of craftsmen churns out w...

About the Book From evening gowns to jeans to pillows, beads give interest, texture, and movement to whatever they are applied. Using the technique...

About the Book The age of exploration was one in which a confident and wealthy Europe was ready to look at the world in different ways. By this tim...

This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably Indiaa (TM)s most iconic contemporary artist to...

Art of India: A wanderINDIA drawing and colouring book

Published on the occasion of the show 8 Bengal Masters: Miracles of Existence, this volume explores the post-Colonial context of Bengal that produc...

Masterpieces at the Jaipur Court is the sixth in a new series of books initiated by the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur. Wr...

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in...

Art for Tribal Rituals is the outcome of extensive fieldwork carried out by Eberhard Fischer and Haku Shah in South Gujarat in 1969. After an initi...

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction,...

Typography, the art of designing printed words, was once the domain of an elite few artists but has become an area with which millions of people en...

This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that ...

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural gia...

This book is a tribute to the image-makers of Kumortuli, as well as a social and cultural account of Durga Puja—the most important religious festiv...

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the Fr...

Published to accompany the 2014 art exhibits at Museum of Sacred Art, Belgium.

Madhubani art's origin is believed to go back to the ancient era of the Ramayana, when the town was decorated by inhabitants of the region for the ...

The Art of Bikaner features about sixty paintings mostly on handmade paper and some on silk. Executed in Bikaner style, the works have clearly been...

This book highlights treasures of the Salar Jung Museum, showcasing the extraordinary personal collection of the Salar Jung family, presented under...

Unacknowledged during her life and considered an icon post her death, between these polarities lies the journey and the struggle for expression of ...

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its o...

The 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 gods and ...

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only inform...

His 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 to Dawn’ i...

This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored...

Developed by English handwriting masters in the 18th century, copperplate calligraphy is admired for its fluidity and beauty. It is the most popula...

This is a comprehensive guide to teach writing and story development from a collaborative global perspective. This book teaches writers how to tak...