Fine Arts

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

About the Book Just look at the price tag for some designer jeans: they re over the top Fortunately, there s an easy, inexpensive, and fun way to j...

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

The little-known paintings in this volume once belonged to the Sarabhai family. These collected works reflect great discrimination and aesthetic se...

About the Book Covering eight classical dance forms of India Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi and Sattriy...

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...

Handmade and handcrafted objects are a part of daily life in Gujarat. The crafts of Gujarat demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between humans a...

Clay has been essential to Indian culture past and present. It has been a perfect vehicle for Indian creativity throughout the ages. The shapes and...

Paper is undeniably a vehicle for the flowering of Indian art, literature, history and religion, but where did it come from? Who made it and how? W...

Ganesh Haloi (1936), an artist of the 20th century, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) moved to Calcutta after the Partition in 1950....

About the Book Fire and Other Images comprises a selection of prose pieces by Paritosh Sen, originally written and published in Bengali and rendere...

About the Book In her book In a Different Voice , psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male developmen...

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

Drawing the line is the oldest form of visual artistic expression known to man, from pre-historic cave drawings onwards. Every culture in the world...

About the Book New York . . . I HATE IT. . . I LOVE IT. . . I DON'T KNOW. . . These are the reflections of Max Frisch (1911-91) writing from his ap...

Dance as Yoga addresses the background, technique and embodiment of the odissi dance form. It describes odissi’s mechanism for creating, dispersing...

Crossing Boundaries the Art of Lee Waisler

Court & Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the TAPI Collection (H.B)

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...

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...

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

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...

Art of India: A wanderINDIA drawing and colouring book

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...