In the realm of gods and kings
Subtitle: arts of India
By: edited by Andrew Topsfield.
Contributors: Topsfield, Andrew.
Publisher: Philip Wilson; Distributed in North America by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Art, Indic -- Catalogs; Gods, Hindu, in art -- Catalogs; Kings and rulers in art -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "This volume celebrates the wealth and diversity of the arts of India created for the life of courts and temples from 1000 BC to the twentieth century. 112 paintings, 59 objects and 21 photographs ranging in date from the 2nd century BC to the late 20th century reflect the variety and continuities of India's aesthetic traditions." "Catalogue entries comment on narrative episodes from the epics, iconographic symbolism, religious, as well as social and contextual references related to the works shown. Many of the paintings and objects shown in the Polsky collections and others are from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York. Each work is fully illustrated in colour and most of these have not been previously published."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-410) and index.
Art works from the Cynthia Hazen Polsky collection and the Metropolitan Museu of Art, New York.