Research Catalog

Title

Popular Indian art : Raja Ravi Varma and the printed gods of India / Erwin Neumayer, Christine Schelberger.

Author

Neumayer, Erwin, 1949-

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schelberger, Christine
• Ravi Varma, 1848-1906

Description

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

This book introduces the reader to modern Indian Hindu iconography. Well annotated and with a large number of rare oleographs, it will appeal to art historians and those interested in popular Indian culture.

Alternative Title

Raja Ravi Varma and the printed gods of India

Subject

• Ravi Varma, 1848-1906 > Art patronage
• Ravi Varma, 1848-1906
• Ravi Varma, 1848-1906 > Art patronage > Exhibitions
• 1800-1899
• Idols and images > India
• Painting, Indic > 19th century
• Art, Indic > 19th century
• Painting, Indic > 20th century
• Art, Indic > 20th century
• Mythology, Indic > India
• Mythology, Indic, in art
• Folk art > India > 19th century
• Folk art > India > 20th century
• Idols and images > India > Exhibitions
• Art, Indic > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Indic
• Art patronage
• Idols and images
• Painting, Indic
• Volkskunst
• Schilderijen
• Prenten
• Goden
• Painting, Indic > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Prints, Indic > Exhibitions
• Hindu gods in art > Exhibitions
• Hindu mythology in art > Exhibitions
• India
• Indien

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. The Magic Stone -- 2. The Printed Gods of India -- 3. Raja Ravi Varma -- 4. The Industrialization of Gods -- 5. Printing for Independence -- 6. The Beauty and the Censor -- 7. Matchsticks, Fireworks, and Icons.

ISBN

• 0195658728
• 9780195658729

LCCN

2003334757

OCLC

• ocm51000416
• 51000416
• SCSB-1311014

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library