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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
This exhibition catalogue covers the art of portraiture which flourished in the royal courts of Rajasthan. Rajput rulers, warriors, heads of religious institutions and rich and influential merchants were the major patrons or art and had their portraits painted for visual documentation, political gifts and also as valuable art objects.
A richly illustrated look at the lives and careers of North Indian artists
I Can Never Say I Was Born To Dance, She Says With A Subtle Hint Of Pride. Yet For This Very Reason, Kumudini Lakhia Went On To Become One Of The Great Modern Innovators Of North Indian Classical Dance. Though She Studied Kathak Throughout Her Life, Her
This volume explores the socio-cultural and the tectonic aspects of Kerala's wooden architecture, which is deeply rooted in religious and secular customs and shaped by geo-climatic forces. The author's multi-disciplinary approach links the various ethnic groups residing in Kerala, and the mutual adoption and adaptation of construction systems within migrant groups. This volume attempts to fill the research gap concerning vernacular styles, a need made more urgent by the fact that the traditional ways of building may get replaced by the modern much faster than we can imagine. AUTHOR: Miki Desai is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, 2000, and the Graham Grant, 2005. He is the author of Architekture in Gujurat, Indien: Nauernhof, Stadthaus, Palast, and the co-author of Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity: India 1880 to 1980. He received the Earthwatch fellowship in 1996. He has taught and lectured at many universities in Europe and the USA. 211 photographs, 53 drawings, 95 plans, 2 maps
Places Krishen Khanna's work in its biographical, historical and social context through the examination of several of his paintings among which are Flagellation and a series of Bandwallahs (musicians) in the 1970s. This book combines Krishen Khanna's monograph with the discussion of the socio-political context.
This text provides lecturers with a resource to teach interior design from an inclusive perspective, acknowledging the contributions of all world cultures, rather than just western European traditions.
For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their view of men and women, and their worship of Hindu deities.
Iranna G.R. S Art Is Thought To Be A Stylistic Challenge To Postmodernism, Using Instead The Representative, Idealistic And Modernist Language Of Contemporary Indian Painting. This Book Is A Meditation On The Life And Work Of The Artist, Emphasizing The S
Shows the ways in which humour can be recovered for religion. This book argues that religion is diminished when it fails to understand and embrace its own historical connection. Its chapters deal with topics ranging from humour as an expression of intimacy to humour as the maintenance of the soul.