A splendid land : paintings from royal Udaipur / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera ; with contributions by Molly Emma Aitken, Saloni Ghuwalewala, S. Girikumar, Catherine Glynn, John Stratton Hawley, Shikha Jain, Robin Owen Joyce, Shailka Mishra, Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah, Emma Natalya Stein, Cynthia Talbot, P.M. Vasundhara, Caroline Widmer, Richard David Williams.
Publisher:
Hirmer Publishers ;
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC, November 19, 2022 - May 14, 2023, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, June 11 - September 10, 2023. Includes bibliographical references (pages 385 - 391) and index.
Contents:
Behind the frame: conservation at the City Palace Museum / Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah, P.M. Vasundhara, Saloni Ghuwalewala, and S. Girikumar. Foreword by the National Museum of Asian Art / Chase F. Robinson -- Back matter. -- A splendid land / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- Unscrolling the history of Mewar Kings / Cynthia Talbot -- Mannered Mods: sound and sense in Mewar painting and poetry / Richard Williams -- Cultural landscapes and the creation of mood / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- Conserving the City Palace Museum Complex at Udaipur / Shikha Jain -- From ideal to encountered worlds. -- In the beginning.... Udaipur painting in the seventeenth century / Catherine Glynn -- The architecture of ambience in the eighteenth century / Dipti Khera -- Genealogical scroll of the rulers of Mewar -- Moods of place. Lake Pichola and the Aravalli mountains / Dipti Kera -- Lake palaces and pleasure / Dipti Khera -- Inside the City Palace / Dipti Khera -- Celebrations in the Manek Chowk -- Debra Diamond -- Moods of the Kacheri Mahal / Shailka Mishra -- Beyond the palace gates / Dipti Khera -- t The charismatic city / Dipti Khera -- "The mood of Nahar Magra" / Debra Diamond -- Immersive Terrains: Tikhaliya Magra and Ubeshwari / Debra Diamond -- Social networks. The moods of diplomacy / Dipti Khera -- "The pleasures of Sirdar Singh" / Dipti Khera -- Social terrains: Devale and Sobhagpur / Debra Diamond -- Mapping royal weddings / Debra Diamond -- Moods of devotion. -- Heaven on earth / Debra Diamond -- Blind poet, divine sight / John Stratton Hawley -- The mood of desire / Molly Emma Aitken -- "The mood of Shri Eklinghji" / Dipti Khera -- Krishna in Kankroli / Shailka Mishra -- Navratri celebrations outside the city / Shailka Mishra and Emma N. Stein -- Cosmos and the lake city / Caroline Widmer -- Time and mood. -- Monsoon moods / Dipti Khera -- Monsoon imaginaries / Debra Diamond -- Monsoon terrains / Debra Diamond -- Springtime celebrations / Dipti Khera -- The duration of ambience / Debra Diamond -- Traveling light: photographs from Udaipur / Robin Owen Joyce -- Back matter. -- Behind the frame: conservation at the City Palace Museum / Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah, P.M. Vasundhara, Saloni Ghuwalewala, and S. Girikumar.
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