Published in conjunction with an exhibition opening in August 2018 at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai and then continuing in New Delhi at Art Heritage in October 2018; a part of the exhibition will be showcased in Goa at Serendipity Arts Festival in December 2018 and then shown at additional venues in 2019 Includes bibliographical references and index
"Postcards can be thought of as the worlds first mass transfusion of images. The world went from thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, with the finest painters from India, Austria and Japan getting involved. Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the subject and the first to show hundreds of professionally restored images in their original format. The essays cover the major cities and regions important to postcard publishing and the key themes. The book contains the most beautiful and popular postcards telling the stories of the first postcard publishers in the subcontinent between 1892 and 1947. Many of the images in the book have never been published since their first runs a century ago."--Provided by publisher.
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