Kalighat Painting

Kalighat Painting
Author: Jyotindra Jain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Dr. Jain`S Analysis Is A Creative One: It An Art-Historical Grid On The Works But Allows The Theoretical Framework To Emerge From The Very Materiality, The Contradictions Inherent In The Evolution Of All Works Of Art.

Calcutta

Calcutta
Author: Krishna Dutta
Publisher: Signal Books
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2003
Genre: Calcutta (India)
ISBN: 9781902669595

In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gunter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East. Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli River, Calcutta grew into India's capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings, Macaulay and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema and music. CITY OF ARTISTS: Modern India's cultural capital; home city of

Kalighat Paintings

Kalighat Paintings
Author: Suhashini Sinha
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781851776658

Kalighat painting" developed in the vicinity of the Kali temple in Kolkata, India, in the mid-nineteenth century. The paintings were completed on mill-made paper, stripped of decoration and traditionally feature only one or two characters. Kalighat paintings were some of the first to incorporate secular themes, while also showing satirical depictions of the growing European influence on Kolkata. This beautiful book reveals the Kalighat (literally 'home of Kali') paintings from the V & A's extensive collection and includes work from the prestigious Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata. Striking new photography accompanies essays from leading experts on the craft and a scientific analysis of the pigments and materials used in the paintings. The book also highlights the work of contemporary artists who are creating Kalighat paintings with a modern twist, based on and inspired by the work of nineteenth-century artists. 0Exhibition: Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Fall, 2012).

Kalighat Paintings

Kalighat Paintings
Author: Aditi Nath Sarkar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2000-01
Genre: Patas (Art)
ISBN: 9788174361356

Representing Calcutta

Representing Calcutta
Author: Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: Calcutta (India)
ISBN: 9780415343596

Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.

Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th Century

Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th Century
Author: Steven Kossak
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1997
Genre: Miniature painting, Indic
ISBN: 0870997823

A catalogue to accompany an exhibit held at the museum from March to July 1997. Color reproductions of 83 paintings are presented chronologically rather than in the usual separate sections on Mughal, Deccani, Rijput, and Pahari traditions. Kossak, associate curator of Asian art at the museum, offers an introductory essay. Distributed in the US by Harry N. Abrams. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Indian Renaissance

Indian Renaissance
Author: Hermionede Almeida
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351562967

Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it is also a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial, Victorian Britain. The book proposes a second - Indian - Renaissance for British (and European) art and culture and an undeniable connection between English Romanticism and British Imperialism. Artists treated in-depth include James Forbes, James Wales, Tilly Kettle, William Hodges, Johann Zoffany, Francesco Renaldi, Thomas and William Daniell, Robert Home, Thomas Hickey, Arthur William Devis, R. H. Colebrooke, Alexander Allan, Henry Salt, James Baillie Fraser, Charles Gold, James Moffat, Charles D'Oyly, William Blake, J. M. W. Turner and George Chinnery.