Fine Arts

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...

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 prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularis...

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...

Sonabai Rajawar was one of the few self-taught artists of India, whose story expresses the capacity of human beings everywhere to meet their challenges head-on, and to draw from deep within their inner resources the strength and insight to change ...

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 city of Calcutta and his early days in a village in Bangladesh as major themes. While water-colours h...

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,...

K.G. Subramanyam, widely recognized as one of the India's major modern artists. Book in good condition, Dust Jacket is soiled. Please treat this book not new. It's a used book.

About the Book 'The Singer Simple Home Decor Handbook' is an essential, machine-side reference for home sewers of all skill levels. Clear, concise charts detail fabrics, characteristics and essential measurements which make it quick and easy to bu...

The pictorial world of Rini Dhumal is an amalgam of myth and realism, where nostalgia and sombre tones meet to create powerful protagonists that exude raw primal energy. We see representations of memory and recollection, distilled by her imaginati...

Reverse glass painting is a fascinating yet comparatively unknown facet of Indian art that flourished in the mid-19th century. Created by Chinese and Indian artists, these ‘exotic’ paintings in luminous colours were much favoured by royal patrons ...

About the Book Radha occupies a space which moves from the aesthetics of shringara rasa to the theology of shringara bhakti, from the madhurya of Pushtimarg Vaishnavism to the prema of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, taking in its stride the philosophies of ...

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 been explored for their artistic virtues -Featuring an extensive collection of popular manorath pai...

Pathfinders is an invaluable collection that traces the evolution of different art forms in India. Featuring in-depth and visually rich narratives on both the history and the history makers of Indian art forms since 1950, the set contains six dedi...

Paritosh Sen (1918–2008) towered above many of his contemporaries in the rare quality of his creative personality unwithered by age and exuding an aura and charisma that are the sterling gifts of his experience. This quality came most naturally to...

About the Book - Features an extensive catalogue of many previously unseen works by the artist - Traces, for the first time, the evolution of the artist through various motifs and media employed by the artist in her extensive, impressive repertoir...

The book challenges the popular notion of the Pahari painter being an anonymous craftsman plying predetermined strokes. When first published in German, it was widely acclaimed and has come to occupy the status of a classic.

The world of art is complex and challenging, more so in India because the documentation here is remarkably thin whatever exists is widely scattered and difficult to gather. Addressing these issues, this volume brings together an astounding body of...

The journey from modern to contemporary art in India continues to be one from indigenous to global intersecting with international art at increasingly frequent intervals as time progresses. Recent works by 24 artists have been selected to represen...

Take a ride into the multicoloured world of Bangladeshi rickshaw art and get a glimpse into the lives and work of the artists who embellish these vehicles with vibrantly colourful paintings. This book offers an account, as well as an informed inte...

About the Book - Evocative photographs of the craftsmen making idols of the goddess- Translations of Sanksrit poetry which captures the attributes of the goddess- Diverse Sanskrit commentary (with translations) on Tantric and Advaita philsophyThe ...

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 commercial contacts brought with them the earliest influences of Christianity, Judaism and Islam to Indi...

In Morpho: Hands and feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet—arguably the most popular and, for many, the most cha...

Mapping With Figures : The Evolving Art Of K S Radhakrishnan by R Siva Kumar, 9385360140, 9789385360145, MapinPub

Krishna Reddy worked a revolution in printmaking by discovering the method of printing numerous colours from a single metal plate. Experiments in the possibilities of simultaneous colour printing remained unpredictable until Krishna analysed the o...

About the Book This is a collection of 19 projects for jewellery and accessories using materials that were intended for different uses altogether. Each project is described with easy-to-follow instructions and accompanied by full-colour photograph...

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 jazz up ordinary denim so it s practically red-carpet ready: these techniques for distressing, embroi...

InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia brings together essays by leading critics and curators to examine modern and contemporary art practice and its discourses in Asia. Covering diverse regions spanning China, India, Thailand, Iran, West Asia, Pakistan...

The little-known paintings in this volume once belonged to the Sarabhai family. These collected works reflect great discrimination and aesthetic sensibility. This remarkable collection offers a well-rounded view of the broad historical development...

About the Book Covering eight classical dance forms of India Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi and Sattriya Leela Venkataraman seamlessly weaves together a historical perspective with the contemporary scena...

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 wigs, another lights, polo balls, boats, shuttlecocks, and jeans. This book chronicles the story of s...

Handmade and handcrafted objects are a part of daily life in Gujarat. The crafts of Gujarat demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature, offer meaningful lessons in sustainable living for future generations. The ingenious use ...

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 styles of items made of clay are innumerable. Many of the potters who make them act dual roles as c...

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? What was their inspiration? How has this ancient craft survived in today's India? Comprehensive and d...

Ganesh Haloi (1936), an artist of the 20th century, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) moved to Calcutta after the Partition in 1950. In his life practice, Ganesh Haloi has cultivated a singular vocabulary of abstraction and landscap...

About the Book Fire and Other Images comprises a selection of prose pieces by Paritosh Sen, originally written and published in Bengali and rendered into English here, in an attempt to make them available to a wider audience. The pencil sketches t...

About the Book In her book In a Different Voice , psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the public...

About the Book From evening gowns to jeans to pillows, beads give interest, texture, and movement to whatever they are applied. Using the techniques and suggestions in this colour guide, you can quickly and efficiently embellish anything. Beautifu...

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, across continents and time-frames, has a rich store of traditional art which is drawing-based. The...

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 apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing unt...

Dance as Yoga addresses the background, technique and embodiment of the odissi dance form. It describes odissi’s mechanism for creating, dispersing and expressing energy, as well as some early experiments in choreography that extended its accepted...

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 time, the emerging European imagination could see the world as an imagined or designative concept. Text...

About the Book Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Glori...

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-leaf manuscripts and illuminating them. This art form touched its zenith during the 18th century when ...

Captured in Miniature reveals a magical experience that awaits us in the world of Mughal art. The lives of kings and queens, their pursuits, celebrations and costumes, painted to the very last detail, reveal more of the Mughal epoch than a thousan...

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 kilometres of river banks have been converted into ghats. Manu Parekh has executed a series of paintin...

About the Book Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty years after its debut on the air. From Willie Nelson's legendary pilot show and his fourteen magical ep...