num_pages: 240
description: Gods in Print is the first comprehensive collection of early hand-colored lithographs multiple-block chromolithographs and offset print images of Indias world of gods and goddesses. Indias love of gods in print began in the 1870s with the founding of the Calcutta Art Studio and the Chitrashala Press. In 1894 artists Ravi and Raja Varma set up the Ravi Varma Fine Art Lithographic Press outside Bombay. By the early 1900s these presses had begun selling their prints throughout the subcontinent. Collectors Mark Baron and Elise Boisante have traveled to remote corners of India to document and preserve this fragile and beautiful popular art form. Their diligence in tracking down God prints and restoring them to their original brilliance has resulted in the extraordinary and comprehensive collection featured in this volume. For the first time the full scope of Indias sacred imagery in print can be viewed from its earliest days.
language: English
title: Gods in Print: Masterpieces of India's Mythological Art
publisher: Mandala Publishing