Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was among the first Indian painters to successfully adapt academic realism to the visual interpretation of Indian mythology and adopt Western painting techniques of portraiture. His genre of paintings, which eventually led to chromolithographs (oleographs), has maintained a lasting effect on the Indian sensibility, making him the best-known classical painter of modern times. This book is an account of Ravi Varma's traditional background and environment in the context of colonial India, and the relationship of this milieu with his profession as an aristocratic itinerant painter. Many royal families of India and several rich and powerful personalities were patrons of Ravi Varma, whose portraits he painted in large numbers.

Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India

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Language: EnglishPages: 344 (Throughout Color and B/W Illustrations)About the Book This bookinvestigates the different cultural roles played by photographs of Indianarchitecture from the latter half of the nineteenth century, an Inquirystretching from their pre-history to their migration Into book illustrations.calendar art, and religious Imagery. Beyondthe apparent purposes of these images - as picturesque views, scientificrecords of an architectural past. political memorials, travel mementos,textbook vignettes deeper considerations Influenced the way their makers workedin selecting, framing, composing, and populating their representations. Shapingthe viewers thinking about what they represented, these images remain enduringrecords of a way of seeing, of minds as well as monuments, and exist today asartefacts of the visual culture of colonialism. Twelve essays from scholars working In severaldisciplines (history, anthropology. art history, and the history ofphotography) show how photographs of architecture reveal the inescapable waysin which the practice of image making IS aligned with the purposes of power,the presumptions accompanying the encounter with strangeness, the Internalorder of the colonial and the scientific mind, and even our metaphysicaldispositions toward the world. About the Author MariaAntonella Pelizzari is Associate Curator of Photographs at the Canadian Centrefor Architecture. Montreal; Julia Ballerini is an independent scholar andl

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Modhurima Sinha

Qadri's origins are in rural India, and as a boy, he was initiated by a Sufi and a vajrayan Tantric guru; this led to his lifelong practice of meditation and study of Buddhist philosophy, both of which inform his work. Qadri found his first powerful patron in Dr. Mulk Raj Anand in 1961. In the course of his career, he interacted with an astonishing array of cultural figures including the surrealist artist Rene Magritte and Heinrich Boll who became an important patron. Despite the fact that he lives in Denmark, an overiding sense of Eastern ethos pervades his art.

Seeker ; The Art of Sohan Qadri

Donald B. Kuspit

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Betty Seid

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Clay Cures is a book that provides an insight into the healing powers of clay tracing historical and academic evidence and also explains how to effectively use clay with optimum benefits. Using clay, earth or mud for curing is not a simple matter of faith or belief. You can be a complete cynic and still be cured! Clay has been successfully used for treating malaria, diabetes, typhoid, back pains and sciatica, viral fevers, high blood pressure, urinary infections, lung congestions, colds and even after a caesarean section. It has always cured and cured completely.

Clay Cures

Anjou Musafir

Daughters Of India is a series of stories of twenty women from individual communities spread throughout India. These diverse women are united by the strength of their spirits and their determination to improve their lives and those of their children. The varied forms of their creative expression provide graphic windows into their lives. The women of Daughters of India convey an evocative integrity as they directly meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

Daughters Of India: Art And Identity

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