The intelligence of tradition in Rajput court painting
By: Molly Emma Aitken.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300142297
Subjects: Miniature painting, Indic; Rajput painting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the intelligence of tradition; title: Structures of desire: an introduction to the court paintings of Rajasthan; title: Interpreting style; title: The formalities: form and function in Mewar portraiture; title: Repetition and response: the case of Layla and Majnun; title: Chokha's shringara (amorous) style: the painter as interpreter of his tradition; title: Conclusion: the lives of Rajput pictorial forms from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.