Watson Collection of Indian Miniatures at the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Elvehjem Museum of Art Catalogs) - Softcover

Gautama V. Vajracharya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932900895 ISBN 13: 9780932900890

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Synopsis

Introducing a rich historical and religious context, Gautama V. Vajracharya offers an original, nuanced study of the iconography of Indian miniature paintings. Providing an extended analysis of 129 art works catalogued in this book, he explicates the gradual development and interrelationship of two styles of Indic miniature painting from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: one commissioned by the Muslim Mughal rulers and the other by Hindu Rajput princes. He shows that belief systems reflected in ancient Indian art continued to be expressed, whether consciously or not, in later Indian miniature paintings and in other artistic forms well into the nineteenth century.

Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

About this title

From the Publisher:

Distributed for the Elvehjem Museum of Art

About the Author:

Gautama V. Vajracharya teaches Indian civilization and art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has been actively researching and documenting the Watson collection for fifteen years. He is the author of Everlasting Flowers of Buddhist Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0932900895
• ISBN 13: 9780932900890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232