A Splendid Land - by Debra Diamond & Dipti Khera (Hardcover)

Name: A Splendid Land - by Debra Diamond & Dipti Khera (Hardcover)
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A lavishly illustrated volume that explores the immersive aesthetics and emotional resonance of paintings from the lake city of Udaipur.
About the Author: Debra Diamond is the Elizabeth Moynihan Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.
400 Pages
Art, Asian

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Book Synopsis

A lavishly illustrated volume that explores the immersive aesthetics and emotional resonance of paintings from the lake city of Udaipur.

Around 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood of the city's palaces, lakes, and mountains. A Splendid Land explores how painters depicted places, mapped terrains, and triggered memories to foster political and personal attachments to land through dazzling paintings that were made over a two-century period spanning from Mughal to colonial India--paintings which have never before been published or exhibited in the United States. The book opens up new interpretative possibilities by displacing the figure of the king to examine social networks, cultural landscapes, pleasure, and politics; by drawing upon previously untranslated sources; and by engaging with the latest scholarship on the history of the senses.

About the Author

Debra Diamond is the Elizabeth Moynihan Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Her previous books include Yoga: The Art of Transformation and Garden and Cosmos: Royal Paintings of Jodhpur. Dipti Khera is associate professor in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is the author of The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century.

Dimensions (Overall): 11.3 Inches (H) x 10.3 Inches (W) x 2.4 Inches (D)

Weight: 5.15 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 400

Genre: Art

Sub-Genre: Asian

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH

Theme: Indian & South Asian

Format: Hardcover

Author: Debra Diamond & Dipti Khera

Language: English

Street Date: February 19, 2023

TCIN: 1006098982

UPC: 9783777439440

Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-3881

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 5.15 pounds

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