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Kalighat painting : images from a changing world / Jyotindra Jain.
Fine Arts Library ND2048.C3 J35 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jain, Jyotindra, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herwitz, Davida.
- Herwitz, Chester.
- Watercolor painting, Indic--India--Kolkata.
- Watercolor painting, Indic.
- Art--Private collections.
- Art museums.
- India--Kolkata.
- Herwitz, Chester--Art collections.
- Herwitz, Davida--Art collections.
- Art--Private collections--United States.
- Art.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Images from a changing world
- Place of Publication:
- Ahmedabad, India : Mapin Pub. ; Middletown, NJ : Grantha Corporation ; Wappingers Falls, NY : Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 1999.
- Summary:
- Kalighat painting emerged from the changing world of 19th century Calcutta. with old and new images seemingly layered upon one another on a transparent plane. Traditionally inherited techniques, iconography and artistic practices combined with revivalistic Mughal court culture. Sanskrit drama and photography to translate folk art forms into popular genres.
- As Jyotindra Jain explores this astonishing transformation, she demonstrates how the Kalighat painters became not only the first contemporaries of Indian art, but anticipated the popular culture of the 20th century that was to follow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1890206172
- 8185822646
- OCLC:
- 41658405
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