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A splendid land : paintings from royal Udaipur

Title
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.
Publication
  • Washington, DC : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Munich, Germany : Hirmer Publishers, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Mewar, Arvind Singh, 1944-
  • Robinson, Chase F.
  • Khera, Dipti.
  • Aitken, Molly Emma.
  • Ghuwalewala, Saloni.
  • Girikumar, S.
  • Glynn, Catherine Ann, 1946-
  • Hawley, John Stratton, 1941-
  • Jain, Shikha.
  • Joyce, Robin Owen.
  • Mishra, Shailka.
  • Mukherjee, Anuja.
  • Shah, Bhasha.
  • Stein, Emma Natalya.
  • Talbot, Cynthia.
  • Vasundhara, P. M.
  • Widmer, Caroline.
  • Williams, Richard David.
  • Diamond, Debra.
  • City Palace Museum, Udaipur, organizer.
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
399 pages : color illustrations; 30 centimeters.
Subject
  • Mewar painting > Exhibitions
  • Mewar painting
  • Udaipur (Princely State) > In art > Exhibitions
  • India > Udaipur (Princely State)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 385 - 391) and index.
Contents
Foreword by the City Palace Museum / Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar -- Foreword by the National Museum of Asian Art / Chase F. Robinson -- Essays. -- 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.
Call Number
JQF 23-9
ISBN
  • 9783777439440
  • 3777439444
LCCN
2022021888
OCLC
1304243049
Title
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
Washington, DC : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Munich, Germany : Hirmer Publishers, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385 - 391) and index.
Added Author
Mewar, Arvind Singh, 1944- writer of foreword.
Robinson, Chase F., writer of foreword.
Khera, Dipti.
Aitken, Molly Emma.
Ghuwalewala, Saloni.
Girikumar, S.
Glynn, Catherine Ann, 1946-
Hawley, John Stratton, 1941-
Jain, Shikha.
Joyce, Robin Owen.
Mishra, Shailka.
Mukherjee, Anuja.
Shah, Bhasha.
Stein, Emma Natalya.
Talbot, Cynthia.
Vasundhara, P. M.
Widmer, Caroline.
Williams, Richard David.
Container of (work): Diamond, Debra. Splendid land.
City Palace Museum, Udaipur, organizer.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution.
Cleveland Museum of Art, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 23-9
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