Field of color
Subtitle: tantra drawings from India
Contributors: Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Drawing Center's drawing papers -- 50; Drawing papers -- 50.
Publisher: Drawing Center
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Tantric art; Art and religion; Tantrism; Exhibitions; Art collections
Other titles: Tantra drawings from India
Description: "This volume brings together over 30 beautiful works on paper by anonymous artists from Rajasthan, collected by the French poet Franck Andŕe Jamme. Intended to serve as meditation aids for followers of the Tantric School of Hinduism, they are based on illustrations first known to have appeared in 17th century religious treatises that were copied generation from generation, the images eventually becoming independent of the texts. Painted in gouache, watercolor, and tempera on paper, they reflect the highly symbolic world view of Hindu Tantrism, using color to help the viewer achieve a heightened state of enlightment ... " t.p.
Notes: Text by Franck André Jamme.

Exhibition held Nov. 6, 2004-Jan. 12, 2005 at the Drawing Center's Drawing Room.

"Edward Hallam Tuck Publication Program."