From the ocean of painting : India's popular paintings, 1589 to the present / Barbara Rossi ; with contributions by Roy C. Craven, Jr. and Stuart Cary Welch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Barbara, 1940-

Contributor:

Craven, Roy C.

Welch, Stuart Cary.

University of Iowa. Museum of Art.

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

University of Chicago.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk art--India--Exhibitions.

Folk art.

Patas (Art).

Exhibitions.

India.

Patas (Art)--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xiv, 295 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking publication, Barbara Rossi, who has traveled and researched extensively in India, presents 101 works of extraordinary beauty representing twenty-one forms of popular painting and spanning 400 years. Based on a traveling exhibition that Rossi curated, From the Ocean of Painting offers Western audiences a comprehensive collection of paintings largely unknown in Europe and the United States.

Notes:

Based on an exhibition presented by the University of Iowa Museum of Art, which traveled to the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art during 1994-95.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-280) and index.

ISBN:

0195111931

019511194X

OCLC:

36908953