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From the Ocean of Painting: India's Popular Paintings 1589 to the Present
From the Ocean of Painting India's Popular Paintings 1589 to the Present Author:Barbara Rossi, Roy C. Craven, Stuart Cary Welch, Oxford University Press, Oxford Univ Prtrade In this groundbreaking publication, Barbara Rossi, who has traveled and researched extensively in India, presents 101 works of extraordinary beauty representing twenty-one forms of popular painting and spanning 400 years. Based on a traveling exhibition that Rossi curated, From the Ocean of Painting offers Western audiences a comprehensive coll... more »ection of paintings largely unknown in Europe and the United States. Organized around the primary functions these artworks serve, this volume enables readers to see the folk, tribal, and urban contexts in which these forms of painting arose, and to gain a fuller understanding of the representative works, all of which are illustrated and given in-depth commentaries. But the chief pleasure here is, of course, the art itself--a wealth of remarkable pictorial images rendered in vibrantly rich palettes. Gorgeously illustrated with fifty-seven color and fifty-three black-and-white reproductions, From the Ocean of Painting brings us a world of art rarely glimpsed in the West and a stunning collection anyone interested in painting will not want to miss.« less