India

	Arts of India by Joseph M. Dye - 1588860639 From the austere dignity of a Jain Thirthankara sculpture to the rich colors of Rajput paintings, the Indian collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts represents the scope of Indian art at its most expressive. Widely regarded as one of the finest in the United States, this collection was established in 1968 when funds provided by Paul Mellon enabled the Museum to purchase more than a hundred paintings, sculptures, textiles and decorative objects from New York art dealer Nasli Heeramaneck... $80.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Flowers, Dragons and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art - 1555952380 Comprised of some three hundred objects, the collection of Asian textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has remained a hidden treasure since its inception nearly a century ago. This small but important collection, which includes textiles from East, South and Central Asia dating from the fifteenth through twentieth century, displays remarkable geographical breadth, great diversity of technique, and a broad range of functions. With highlights including late Persian te... $35.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Indian Dance: The Ultimate Metaphor - 187852965X This volume touches all aspects of Indian dance spanning from the traditional to futuristic. It blends analysis and interpretation and offers a bracing perspective on how classical dance has taken shape through the ages, enriched our culture and maintained our store of wisdom, sanity and humanity, even as it prepares for the enormous challenges it faces in the new millennium. It celebrates the brilliant flowering of Indian dance throughout the world. Hundreds of young Dutch, Surinamese and ot... $59.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Nautch Girls of India - Dancers . Singers . Playmates - 8190068806 The Nautch girl as entertainer of men belonged to a unique class of courtesans who played a significant role in social and cultural life of India in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This book traces her emergence in the Mughal era when she reached the zenith of her glory, her popularity among the English Sahibs and the Indian aristocracy during the Raj and finally her decline and demise at the hands of misguided zealtos. Sumptuously illustrated with fine paintings and drawings from collectio... $50.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Remembering India: Sir David Goodall - 1900269058 Sir David Goodall GCMG was British High Commissioner to India from 1987 to 1991. His earlier posting included Indonesia, Kenya, Australia, and Germany, as well as a spell in the Cabinet Office from 1982-4, when he helped to negotiate the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985. Sir David's interest in painting began at school at Ampleforth, with lessons from Father Raphael Williams, a talented watercolorist in the Wilson Steer tradition; but he only started painting seriously twenty years later after r... $7.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Sacred Landscapes of the Himalayas - 3700131097 Where the mountains can be gods it seems obvious to talk about the sacredness of landscape: The proceedings of an international seminar at Heidelberg in May 1998 present nine case studies covering the entire range of the Himalaya, from Ladakh and Garhwal in India, to Humla and Mustang in Nepal as well as Bhutan. The focus is on space-related architectural and/or anthropological analysis of the built environment and its location in landscape - a term that denotes the uniqueness and singularity... $72.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Tradition and Beyond: Handcrafted Indian Textiles - 8174360840 Handcrafted Indian textiles, steeped in tradition, are the living heritage of the glory of India. The decade spanning 1980 - 1990 witnessed a renaissance in the promotion and revival of techniques, some of which were in danger of becoming extinct. Warps and wefts underwent a transformation, with assorted weaves being combined to produce "new from the old." The hundred and forty outstanding textiles represented in this book were selected from fifteen hundred especially commissioned from master... $24.50     View Details Add To Cart