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Feast on 14 yummy modern Southeast Asian artworks from National Gallery Singapore. You could even share these tasty nibbles with a friend or two! This is the first title in the Gallery’s Art for Tinies series: board books with larger- than-life artworks for little art lovers and their grown-up companions.

An intimate record of Indian artist Bharti Kher's 2016 installation in Sigmund Freud's final home in London. Published for the 2016 exhibition of the same name held at the Freud Museum, This Breathing House offers an intimate view of Indian artist Bharti Kher’s (born 1969) multipart installation in Sigmund Freud’s final home in London. Following a foreword from the museum’s director, the essay by Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery, explores Kher’s work, its themes and dia...

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in Agra in the closing years of the eighteenth century. A precocious child, he began composing verses at an early age and gained recognition while he was still very young. He wrote in both Urdu and Persian and was also a great prose stylist. He was a careful, even strict, editor of his work who took to publishing long before his peers. His predilection for writing difficult, obscure poetry peppered with complex metaphors produced a unique commentarial traditi...

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian Drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been published, consists of 65 works on paper created between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Harris-Truelove Collection is uniquely and tightly focused on works from the royal courts of North India, and the majority of these drawings served as preparatory...

The book gives a comprehensive view of the complex world of India's sacred place par excellence, also known as Benares. Beyond a scholarly presentation of pilgrimages and documentation of their routes, the book opens a new view: visually compelling photographs focus on sacred objects.

The book consists of a major essay on the subject and biographical presentations of seven sculptors who form a distinctive school in contemporary Indian sculpture. In the major essay the historical tradition of Indian sculpture is recounted, the impact of Western art and ideas on it is discussed and the effort of a group of sculptors to work off the weight of Western ideas are focused upon. The work of this particular group of sculptors is described as an intelligent attempt not just to subver...

A fresh and exciting exploration of Southeast Asian history from the 5th to 9th century, seen through the lens of the region's sculpture Numerous Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished in Southeast Asia from the 5th to the 9th century, yet until recently few concrete details were known about them. Lost Kingdoms reveals newly discovered architectural and sculptural relics from this region, which provide key insights into the formerly mysterious kingdoms. The first publication to use sculpture as...

Sukhothai, meaning "Dawn of Happiness", is the name for a city, a kingdom, and an era. Considered the "Golden Age" by the Thais, the Sukhothai period, from the mid-13th to the mid-15th centuries, had a most profound impact on all subsequent Thai political, religious, and artistic life. This text brings together the major achievements of the period in architecture, sculpture, painting, and ceramics, and should be of interest to art historians, and students of Thai history and culture.

Over the centuries India, with its genius for painting, has developed myriad traditions and types of painting that constitute, collectively, an "ocean" of visual form. Yet books on Indian painting in the West have focused mainly on miniatures commissioned by Indian emperors and maharajas, with little attention given to popular painting - painting for the people. This book, based on a travelling exhibition that that the curated, is intended as a comprehensive overview of this diverse and fascinat...

Pakistan is one of the youngest of the Test playing countries, having played its first Test match in 1952. Over the years it has produced some of the most talented and exciting cricketers the world has ever seen. These have included the charismatic all-rounders Imran Khan and Wasim Akram: the ‘Little Master’ Hanif Mohamed; Javed Miandad and the modern master Inzamam ul-Haq; Pakistan’s first genuine cricketing hero Fazal Mahmood; the mesmerising leg-spinner, Abdul Qadir; and two of today’s most e...

One of the most powerful and exotic of all the world's great dynasties, the Mughals ruled India from 1526 to 1858. During this time they produced an astonishing number of rulers of outstanding ability, who operated in a hugely diverse and complex religious, linguistic and social environment. The Mughals were great patrons of the arts, using them to underpin their political position and leaving behind a particularly rich legacy of visual art. This book showcases the British Library's extensive c...

Filled with over 170 classical Indian works of art and expert commentary, Kingdom of the Sun is a welcome addition to the field of Indian art history. Few regions of India have so excited the imagination as has the princely state of Mewar, which has been celebrated as the most heroic and illustrious of the Rajput states. Despite this, relatively little writing has been devoted to the innovative artists whose work helped to establish the state's reputation. Kingdom of the Sun: Indian Court and...

The Walters Art Museum is among America's most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning seven millennia. The museum features a stunning array of objects, from richly illuminated Qur'ans and images of the Buddha, to captivating narrative paintings and artfully crafted ceramics and metalworks. Official publication in March 2023 celebrates the reopening of the Museum's Arts of Asia and Islam collections in the renovated and reinsta...