Watson Collection of Indian Miniatures at the Elvehjem Museum of Art - Softcover

Vajracharya, Gautama V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932900895 ISBN 13: 9780932900890

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Synopsis

Introducing a rich historical and religious context, Gautama V. Vajracharya offers an original, nuanced study of the iconography of Indian miniature paintings. Providing an extended analysis of 1.29 art works catalogued in this book, he explicates the gradual development and interrelationship of two styles of Indie miniature painting from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: one commissioned by the Muslim Mughal rulers and the other by Hindu Rajput princes. He shows that belief systems reflected in ancient Indian art continued to be expressed, whether consciously or not, in later Indian miniature paintings and in other artistic forms well into the nineteenth century.

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Review:

"An original account of a complex field, emphasizing the continuity of religious ideas." - Joanna Williams, University of California, Berkeley

About the Author:

Gautama V. Vajracharya teaches Indian civilization and art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been actively researching and documenting the Watson collection for fifteen years. He is the author of Everlasting Flowers of Buddhist Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0932900895
• ISBN 13: 9780932900890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232