A Splendid Land

Name: A Splendid Land
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783777439440
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Paintings from Royal Udaipur

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A Splendid Land explores how South Asian painters from Mughal to colonial India centred sensory experiences, emotions, and cultural landscapes in their work. The book focuses on immersive paintings from around 1700 in Udaipur, which vividly convey the moods of palaces, lakes, and mountains. By examining artistic depictions of place, memory, and ecological relations, it reveals how art fostered political and personal attachments to the land.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in South Asian art, history, and culture, as well as those fascinated by sensory experience in visual arts and early modern art history.

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How and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions, and cultural landscapes in South Asia? A Splendid Land is the first exhibition to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years, spanning from Mughal to colonial India, that have never been published or exhibited in the United States.

Around 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood (bhava) 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. By examining social networks, ecological relations, and pleasurable pursuits, and by drawing upon previously untranslated sources and engaging with the history of the senses, A Splendid Land opens early modern art history to new interpretative possibilities.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777439440

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 December 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 150 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Debra Diamond
Edited by Dipti Khera

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 254.0mm

Height: 292.0mm

Weight: 2360g

Pages: 395

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dipti Khera, PhD: Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Trained in architecture, museum anthropology, and art history, Dipti Khera has published on Indian painting, colonial taste and design, and early modern mobilities revealed through vernacular travel objects. Khera's The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2020) was awarded the American Institute of Indian Studies' Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in Indian Humanities. Among her many collaborations, "The 'Long' 18th Century?," coedited for Journal18 (Fall 2021), addresses periodization and pedagogy; and projects with the City Palace Museum (Udaipur) and the Abhay Jain Granthalaya (Bikaner) expand the conservation, digitization, and exhibition of lesser-known artifacts.

Debra Diamond, PhD Elizabeth Moynihan Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art: A specialist in Indian court painting and the visual culture of yoga, Debra Diamond has published extensively on Indian painting as well as on photographic landscapes and contemporary Asian art. Among Diamond's many award-winning exhibitions are Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur (2008), Yoga: The Art of Transformation (2013-14), and Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (2017-22). She also served as editor for the museum handbook Paths to Perfection: Buddhist Art at the Freer|Sackler (D Giles Ltd, 2017).