Impressions of Rajasthan / Carisse and Gérard Busquet ; photography by Bruno Morandi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busquet, Carisse.

Contributor:

Busquet, Gérard.

Morandi, Bruno

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Tableaux de Rajasthan. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rajasthan (India)--Social life and customs.

Rajasthan (India).

Physical Description:

193 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : Flammarion, [2003]

Summary:

Rajasthan is India's tradition-rich northwest royal province, home of maharajas, of imposing forts and grand palaces, and 3,000 year-old settlements. So it is also a land rich in street color, popular pageantry and a unique ethnic design language. "Impressions of Rajasthan takes photography lovers across one of the most inspirational regions on the Indian subcontinent, offering a unique look at the painted imagination of India with murals of pure pattern, mandalic abstractions and figurative story-panels. It is a rich, distinct decorative tradition-often as humorous as it is pious-woven into everyday visual life. Morandi's camera also masterfully captures the everyday lifestyle of contemporary Rajasthan, in particular, Rajasthani women who are the carriers of this pattern language tradition: chatting in small groups, buying fruit at the market, and painting their homes with murals in which religion, history, and politics are described in a brushstroke.

Notes:

Translation of: Tableaux de Rajasthan.

Includes bibliographical references (page 191).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

208011171X

OCLC:

52783319