BOOKS ON INDIAN ART (SET OF 11)

• Stella Kramrisch, J H Cousins, R Vasudeva Podual, The Arts and Crafts of Travancore, London: Royal India Society and The Government of Travancore, 1948

184 pages with 76 black and white plates; hardbound
10 x 7.5 in (25.5 x 19.5 cm)

A veritable encyclopaedia of all the arts of the ancient kingdom of Travancore (now the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu) - architecture, sculpture, metal-work, jewellery, wood-carving, ivories, painting, dance and shadow play.

• Stella Kramrisch, A Survey of Painting in the Deccan, Hyderabad: The Archaeological Department H.E.H. The Nizam's Government in co-operation with The India Society, 1937

234 pages including 24 photogravures; cloth board with dust jacket
10.75 x 9 in (27.5 x 20.7 cm)

• Stella Kramrisch, The Art of India through the Ages, Phaidon Press; New York Graphic Society, 1965

231 pages with 144 pages of large black and white photogravures and 8 tipped-in colour plates, hardbound with dust jacket in a slipcase
12.5 x 9 in (32 x 23 cm)

• Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, New Delhi: Rolo Books International, 1983

296 pages profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates; clot board with dust jacket
11.75 x 8.75 in (30 x 22.5 cm)

• Hermann Goetz, Art of the World: The Art of India, London: Methuen, 1964

283 pages with 66 tipped-in colour plates and black and white reproductions, drawings and maps in the text; hardbound with a slipcase
9.45 x 7.25 in (24 x 18.5 cm)

The book is based on an exhibition of Erich Boehringer's "5000 years of art from India", May-Sept. 1959, Villa Hügel, Essen, and was first published in 1959 in German and English as an independent book publication.

The present lot is a second English edition, and it established the "Art of the World" series, which represented all of the world's major cultures in 13 volumes up until 1964.

• Aschwin Lippe, The Art of India: Stone Sculpture, Tokyo: The Asia Society Inc, 1962

64 including 8 black and white illustrations and 34 black and white plates; hardbound
9.75 x 8.75 in (24.8 x 22.2 cm)

• Marguerite-Marie Deneck, Indian Art (The Colour Library of Art), London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967

48 pages including black and white and colour photography and illustrations; bound in original publisher's black cloth board with gilt lettering to spine and original pictorial jacket
10.75 x 9.5 in (27.5 x 24 cm)

• Philip S Rawson, Indian Painting, Paris: Pierre Tisné and 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.
9.5 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.

• Pratapaditya Pal, The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection, MIT Press, 1977

264 pages including 200 illustrations, many in colour with examples of Hindu and Buddhist art, with figure sculptures (of Krishna, Shiva, Buddha, and other deities) notable for their sensuous, frankly erotic, qualities; soft bound
11 x 9.5 in (28 x 24.5 cm)

Catalogue of a stunning exhibition of South and Southeast Asian stone and bronze sculpture dating from 200 B.C to 600 A.D at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 25 October 1977-15 January 1978

• Philip S Rawson, Erotic Art of the East: The Sexual Theme in Oriental Painting and Sculpture, USA: Minerva, 1973

xiii, 380 pages including 32 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations; beige cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket
12 x 11 in (30.4 x 27.9 cm)

• Leila Ghosh, Dalia Roy, Ajanta and Ellora, Bombay: India Book House, 1986

64 pages profusely illustrated with colour plates; hardbound with dust jacket
10.5 x 7.75 in (27 x 20 cm)

(Set of 11)

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