Author: T. G. Aravamuthan
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120608009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: T. G. Aravamuthan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789390697496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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South Indian Portraits deals extensively with the different types of sculptures and portraits found in various temples and how they found a significant place in the monuments and temples of India. Written by T.G. Aravamuthan, this book is a notable contribution to the art and history of south Indian archaeology. Portrait sculptures have been found in various parts of India. Even in the nooks and corners of south India and in its earliest monuments we come across sculptures which are indubitably portraits. Nowhere else in India, has the art been so persistent or drawn more freely from the people as in South India. A few references in Sanskrit literature are utilised later in discussing the evolution of portrait sculpture. The earliest Tamil literature now available contains indications of the popularity of sculptures portraying human beings. Fully illustrated with samples from various sources, the instinct for portraiture was persistent in the south than in the north.

Author: Vincent Lefèvre
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900420735X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious implications related to this issue.

Author: Crispin Branfoot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838608966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in the early seventeenth century of portraits of identifiable individuals, unprecedented in both South Asia and the Islamic world. Appearing at a time of increasing contact between Europe and Asia, portraits from the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan are among the best-known paintings produced in South Asia. In the following centuries portraiture became more widespread in the visual culture of South Asia, especially in the rich and varied traditions of painting, but also in sculpture and later prints and photography. This collection seeks to understand the intended purpose of a range of portrait traditions in South Asia and how their style, setting and representation may have advanced a range of aesthetic, social and political functions. The chapters range across a wide historical period, exploring ideals of portraiture in Sanskrit and Persian literature, the emergence and political symbolism of Mughal portraiture, through to the paintings of the Rajput courts, sculpture in Tamil temples and the transformation of portraiture in colonial north India and post-independence Pakistan. This specially commissioned collection of studies from a strong list of established scholars and rising stars makes a significant contribution to South Asian history, art and visual culture.

Author: Pradeep Chakravarthy
Publisher: Hachette India Children's Books
ISBN: 9357319166
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The Kohinoor diamond was once the eye of a Kakatiya deity. The Pandyas are counted among the world's longest ruling dynasties. Sanskrit poets spun mesmerizing verse that could be read in reverse too. Tantalizing Malabar spices flavoured the most lavish ancient Roman banquets. Make your way across south India, exploring its kaleidoscopic past and dazzling heritage, right from its first inhabitants up to the Vijayanagara Empire. Meet its royalty and courtiers, builders and sculptors, poets and authors, traders and merchants, spiritual leaders and devotees, and all the other people who went to make it a top destination of the time. Separated from the north by the Vindhya mountains and surrounded on three sides by water, southern India developed its own unique features - with outstanding rulers, incredible literature, spellbinding architecture, stunning dance forms and delicious food. Written in an easy style, by theme, and peppered with illustrations, photographs and tips for museum or monument visits, this very first history of south India for children (and their families) tells the thrilling and eventful story of the region's proud past.

Author: C. Sivaramamurti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronzes
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Since Independence, the princes and regional rulers of India have mostly been seen as anachronistic figures, too closely associated with the former colonial government, and often a byword for extravagance, sybaritic lifestyles, and mild despotism. When in 1967 they were stripped of their privy purses by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, there were more protests in Britain than in India. No serious efforts have been made to put these men, and a few women, in a pictorial context, to examine the differing styles of portraiture favoured by them, and the motives behind the pictures, until now. The more one gazes at these important but hitherto neglected works of art, the more questions are raised. This book attempts to answer and interpret some of them. The arrival of European painters in late 18th century India presented a new opportunity for Indian rulers to commission self-portraits of a different kind, and also to influence indigenous artists in new styles and paint mediums. The arrival of photography brought a further opportunity for them to be pictured in different ways.

Author: John M. Rosenfield
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Joanna G Williams
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004646493
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Author: Seema Bhardwaj
Publisher: Sankalp Publication
ISBN: 9395016515
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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: I am feeling pleasure to present my book Drama and Art in Education to the readers especially teacher trainees. I hope readers will welcome this book and will prove useful for the students as well as other readers to their desires This edition has mainly two sections with total number of ten chapters. First section includes four chapters namely meaning of Art, Types of Art, Drama and Role of Teacher to develop artistic skills, 64 Art Techniques, Scope of Art, Origin and Development of Art in India, Aims and Objectives, Importance and Principles of Art and Second section includes six chapters namely, Indian Folk Methods of Teaching Creative Art, Art Exhibition. Cultural Festivals, Paints. Types of Colours, Process of Preparing Canvas, Art as a Therapy, Role of Art to Enhance Emotionality and Spirituality among Teachers as well as students The objective of this book is to meet the requirement of the curricular needs of teacher trainees. Besides this book will help to understand the basic concept of art with different aspects like: Emotional, Ethical, Social and Spiritual. Through the knowledge of art teachers can make their teaching learning process more and more interesting, useful and creative. Administrators, Teachers and Parents can understand the needs, desires, aspirations interests and aptitudes of the students in order to diagnose the problems because art is the best way to release the emotions and draw out something best and creative. While making this book I made all my efforts and added concemed important notion and subject matter in chapters according to the syllabus. At the end of the contents of this book references and visited websites have been given to enable the readers scrabble deeper in to the subject.