India's fabled city
Subtitle: the art of courtly Lucknow
By: Stephen Markel ; with Tushara Bindu Gude and contributions by Muzaffar Alam ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gude, Tushara Bindu; Alam, Muzaffar; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée Guimet (Paris, France)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780875872063
Notes: Catalog issued in connection with an exhibition held Dec. 12, 2010-Feb. 27, 2011, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and Apr. 6-July 11, 2011, Museé Guimet, Paris.
Table of contents: title: The dynastic history of Lucknow / Stephen Markel; title: India's fabled city: the lure of courtly Lucknow-narratives of an exhibition / Tushara Bindu Gude; title: Lucknow and European society / Rosie Llewellyn-Jones; title: Hybrid visions: the cultural landscape of Awadh / Tushara Bindu Gude; title: Innovations pious and impious: expressive arts in Nawabi Lucknow / Carla Petievich; title: Lucknow's architectural landscape / Catherine Asher; title: "A sacred interest": the role of photography in the "City of Mourning" / Sophie Gordon; title: Origins of the late Mughal painting tradition in Awadh / Malini Roy; title: Of princes and poets in eighteenth-century Lucknow / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: "This blaze of wealth and magnificence": the luxury arts of Lucknow / Stephen Markel; title: Textiles and dress in Lucknow in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Rosemary Crill; title: Music in Lucknow's gilded age / Peter Manuel.