BOOKS ON INDIAN MINIATURE ART (SET OF 13)

• Stuart Cary Welch, Milo Cleveland Beach, Gods, Thrones, and Peacocks: Northern Indian Paintings from Two Traditions – Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York: Asia House Gallery; 1965

130 pages profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates; hard bound with tipped in plate on the front board
10.5 x 7.75 in (27 x 20 cm)

After a foreword by Gordon Bailey Washburn and an introduction by Stuart Cary Welch and Milo Cleveland Beach, the text is divided into the following sections: The Rajput Tradition, The Age of the Muslim Sultans, and The Mughal Age: A Period of Synthesis. Plates follow with the catalogue and bibliography. From the Asia House Gallery exhibition of September to December 1965 and subsequently at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.

• Philip S Rawson, Indian Painting, Paris: Pierre Tisné, New York: Universe Books, Inc., [1961]

169 pages with 62 tipped-in colour plates and 2 double-sided plates (1 map). biblio. index; illustrated cloth covers with gilt lettering.
9.45 x 7.5 in (24 x 19.5 cm)

"The vast sub-continent of India is bounded by sea to the south, and by mountains to the north. Generally speaking the mountains have formed a barrier that has isolated India from the outside world as effectively as the sea. Here and there, however, there are passes through which tides of invasion and rivers of trade have flowed. Far and away the most important of these is the Khyber Pass, in the extreme north-west, which follows roughly the course of the Kabul River out of Afghanistan down to the upper reaches of the Indus River." - Introduction.

• Leela Shiveshwarkar, The Pictures of the Chaurapanchasika: A Sanskrit Love Lyric, New Delhi: National Museum, 1967

x, 59 + [1] pages including 18 tipped-in colour plates with Sanskrit text, English translation and descriptive comments. Appendix (in Sanskrit) and bibliography; cloth board with dust jacket
9.45 x 12 in (24 x 30.5 cm)

Foreword by C. Sivaramamurti. Preface byc the author. Introductory essay describing its context in Sanskrit literary history. A Sanskrit lyric written in the 11th century A.D. by a poet named Bilhana. Translated into English in 1896 by Sir Edwin Arnold.

• V S Agrawala, Indian Miniatures: An Album, New Delhi: Department of Archaeology, Government of India, 1961

10 pages of text + 20 mounted colour plates with explanations opposite; black cloth board with gold embossing on the front board
11 x 8.5 in (28.2 x 22 cm)

• Basil Gray, Douglas Barrett, Painting of India: Treasures of Asia, Skira, 1963

215 pages with 82 tipped-in colour plates; original orange cloth covers with title on binding
11.25 x 9.75 in (28.5 x 25 cm)

"This book may claim to be the first history of Indian painting to incorporate the enormous progress made by research during the past twenty years. It covers firstly the wall painting of the classical period of Indian art from the second to the sixteenth century: the Buddhist Caves of Ajanta, which contain the greatest series of wall paintings in Asia; the less famous but extensive groups at Badami, Bagh and elura; the wonderful frescoes in the Rajaraja Temple of Tanjore." - Introduction

• Karl Khandalvala, Moti Chandra, New Documents in Indian Painting: A Reappraisal, Bombay: The Board of Trustees of the Prince of Wales of Western India, 1969

vii + 240 including 26 colour plates and 209 black and white plates; hardbound with beige cloth cover and tipped-in color plate on front cover
11 x 9.5 in (28.4 x 24.1 cm)

From a limited edition of 500 copies.

"The present volume which is a re-consideration of Indian miniature painting up to the sixteenth century is no more than an attempt to elucidate the many problems which face those who have endeavoured to study this period. The available evidence is all too often inadequate for firm conclusions, and we are conscious of this limitation. Nevertheless, having regard to the new material which has come to light in recent years, we felt that the subject merited an effort on our parts to indicate certain trends and lines of development which we think the evidence indicates." (preface)

• Jagdish Mittal, Andhra Paintings of the Ramayana, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Lalit Kala Akademi, 1969

109 pages including 10 colour plates and 53 black and white plates; hardbound with beige cloth cover and tipped-in colour plate on front cover
11.5 x 9 in (29.2 x 22.8 cm)

Signed copy by Jagdish Mittal.

• Philip Rawson, Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstasy, Thames and Hudson, 1973

128 pages including Index, 190 illustrations, 32 in colour; soft bound
10.25 x 8 in (27.5 x 20.5 cm)

The chapters in the book include: Tibetan & Indian ritual & worship, sex and reality, Krishna, death and fire, cosmic diagrams, the subtle body, meditative diagrams, the approach to unity. With useful commentaries on Tibetan Tanka paintings, Nirvana through sex, or 'Left-handed Tantric Buddhism".

• Toby Falk, Indian Painting: Mughal and Rajput and a Sultanate Manuscript, London: P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd, 1978

168 pages with numerous tipped-in colour plates and black and white plates; soft bound
11.75 x 8.25 in (30 x 21 cm)

Catalogue of an outstanding collection, exhibited at Colnaghi galleries in 1978.

This is a presentation copy.

• Rosa Maria Cimino, Vita di corte nel Rajastha. Miniature indiane dal XVII al XIX secolo. Catalogo mostra Palazzo Reale, Firenze: Mario Luca Grusti, 1985

lxv + 123 pages with 108 black and white illustrations and 24 colour plates
9 x 8.5 in (23 x 22 cm)

• Jagdish Mittal, Books and Prints of Indian Art, New Delhi: Hyderabad Art Society, 1959

43 pages including 7 colour plates; softbound
9.75 x 7 in (25 x 18 cm)

• Pratapaditya Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967

84 pages profusely illustrated with black an white plates, softbound
10.25 x 7 in (26 x 18 cm)

• Ivan Stchoukine, La Peinture Indienne: A L'epoque des Grands Moghols, Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1929

3 preliminary leaves, 214, [2] pages, 100 black and white illustrations, colour plates; hardbound
13 x 9.75 in (33 x 25 cm)

(Set of 13)

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