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The secret kingdom : Nek Chand, a changing India, and a hidden world of art / Barb Rosenstock ; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola.
Fine Arts Library NB1010.C43 R67 2018
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LIBRA NB1010.C43 R67 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenstock, Barb, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chand, Nek.
- Sculptors--India--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Sculptors.
- Rock gardens--India--Juvenile literature.
- Rock gardens.
- Rock gardens--India--Chandīgarh (Union Territory).
- Folk art--India--Chandīgarh (Union Territory).
- Public sculpture--India--Chandīgarh (Union Territory).
- Artists.
- Chand, Nek--Juvenile literature.
- Chandīgarh (India)--Juvenile literature.
- Chandīgarh (India).
- India--Juvenile literature.
- India.
- India--Chandīgarh.
- Local Subjects:
- India.
- India--Chandīgarh.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- The incredible story of the world's largest visionary art environment: the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, kept secret by artist Nek Chand for fifteen years.
- As a refugee during the partition of India in 1947, Nek Chand Saini was resettled in the city of Chandigarh with nothing but the stories he carried in his heart from his homeland. Dismayed at the modern new city he now lived in, he began collecting broken glass, cracked water pots, and discarded construction materials. In a section of wilderness he cleared himself, Nek Chand built the Rock Garden, full of curving paths, intricate mosaics, and hundreds of sculptures of people and animals, which eventually grew to a thirteen-acre wonderland. It was his tribute to the village of his youth, a land full of hidden stories. Barb Rosenstock introduces readers to an incredible outsider artist's vast, stunning creation, and Claire A. Nivola's illustrations bring to life the natural beauty of India and the surreal and marvelous world Nek Chand coaxed from the wild landscape--Dust jacket.
- Notes:
- South Asia Book Award, Winner, 2019
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0763674753
- 9780763674755
- OCLC:
- 987421953
- Publisher Number:
- 99987197243
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