Stretching back over millennia and comprising a myriad of traditions; the art of painting in India is as rich; as varied; and as intriguing as any in the world. Treatments of Indian painting in Europe and the United States; however; have focused mostly on miniatures commissioned by Indias emperors and maharajas and have largely ignored the many splendid types of painting prepared for Indias common peoples. Now; in this groundbreaking publication; Barbara Rossi; who has traveled and researched extensively in India; presents 101 works of extraordinary beauty representing twenty-one forms of popular painting and spanning 400 years. Based on a traveling exhibition that Rossi curated;From the Ocean of Painting is the first comprehensive overview of this diverse material and is organized around the primary functions these artworks serve; from ritual traditions that lead; through the act of painting; to spiritual and material benefits; to iconic and pilgrimage traditions that supply sacred pictures for worship; to narrative traditions that provide illustrations used in storytelling performances of epics and legends. This volume enables readers to see the folk; tribal; and urban contexts in which these generally unknown forms of painting arose; and to gain a fuller understanding of the representative works; all of which are illustrated and given in-depth commentaries. Introductory essays by Stuart Cary Welch; retired curator of Islamic and Later Indian art; Harvard University Art Museums; and by the late Roy C. Craven; Jr.; Professor Emeritus of Indian Art History at the University of Florida; illuminate the connections between popular and sophisticated painting in India and offer an insightful assessment if the scholarship to date on Indias popular painting. But the chief pleasure here is; of course; the art itself--a wealth of remarkable pictorial images rendered in vibrantly rich palettes. Gorgeously illustrated with fifty-seven color and fifty-three black-and-white reproductions; From the Ocean of Painting brings us a world of art rarely glimpsed in the West and a stunning collection anyone interested in painting will not want to miss.
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