Mapin Publishing
Publishers of quality illustrated books on art and culture of India
Mapin Publishing is internationally reputed for producing high-quality illustrated books for nearly 40 years. Our publishing programme covers a broad spectrum: fine art, architecture, archaeology, crafts, design, exhibition catalogues, museum collections, performing arts, photography, children’s books and more.
Well known for our aesthetically produced books and commitment to quality publishing, Mapin has successfully collaborated and partnered with museums in India and across the world to produce books and exhibition catalogues for them. The nearly 50 volumes of museums and exhibitions catalogues are a variegated chronicling of India’s vibrant artistic legacy.
Beginning in 1986 with India: Art and Culture produced for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it has been a steady and long list of successful collaborations between Mapin and leading museums around the world in documenting their invaluable collections and exhibitions of Indian art. Our more recent publications also shine a light upon the modern and contemporary art-making in today’s India and we have also had the privilege of publishing artists’ monographs and group exhibition catalogues.
Several Mapin museum catalogues also archive the large collections of objects of handicrafts produced through the ages by Indian rural, folk and tribal people held in esteemed museums and number of private collections across the globe and in India.
With works by pioneering foreign and Indian photographers of the time, catalogues of exhibitions and collections featuring early photography in and from India also form a sizable part of Mapin’s museum publications.
In providing custom publishing services to our museum partners, our team comes on board in the early stages and delivers complete project management from inception to finished books. These publications are testament to Mapin’s nearly four-decade long enterprise in partnership with museums towards the documentation, promotion and preservation of the art and culture of India.
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition in 1986 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue is a tribute to the rich and varied culture of India as represented in the later art of the subcontinent, dating from the 14th through the 19th centuries. This presentation of 333 artworks brings together masterpieces of the sacred and the court traditions and embraces the urban, folk, and tribal heritage as well.
India
Art and Culture 1300–1900
Stuart Cary Welch
478 pages, 383 illustrations incl. 208 colour plates and 4 maps
9 x 12” (229 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-13-6
Reprint 1993, 1997
Co-published with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1985
Essence of Indian Art
B.N.
Goswamy
286 pages, 222 colour 59 b&w illustrations and a map
8.5 x 11.5” (216 x 292 mm), sc
ISBN: 978-0-939117-00-0
Co-published with Asian Art Museum
Published in association with the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, this catalogue accompanies the exhibition held as part of the ‘Festival of India’ held in 1985–1986. With numerous national collections from India contributing generously from their treasuries, the exhibition coming entirely from the country stands as a manifest tribute to Indian art.
1986
Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, as part of the Indian Art Series, this catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Cartwright Hall, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums in 1988 and at Zamana Gallery, London, in 1989. The volume features a wide range of gold ornaments from the Indian subcontinent dating from the second century BC to the present day. The objects are drawn from the collections of Her Majesty the Queen, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean Museums, and a number of private collections.
A Golden Treasury
Jewellery from the Indian Subcontinent
Susan Stronge, Nima Smith, J.C. Harle
144 pages, 156 colour, 7 b&w illustrations and a map
8.5 x 11” (216 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-26-6
Reprint 1995
Co-published with Victoria and Albert Museum
1988
National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum
Jyotindra Jain, Aarti Aggarwala
240 pages, 244 colour photographs and a map
8.5 x 11.5” (216 x 292 mm), hc & sc
ISBN: 978-0-944142-23-3 (hc)
ISBN: 978-0-944142-27-1 (sc)
National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum
The first in ‘The Museums of India’ series, this book catalogues the collection of the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi. The museum’s collection of more than 20,000 items consists of, among others, items of everyday life, ritual accessories, wood carvings, painted wood and pâpier mâché, dolls, toys, puppets, masks, folk and tribal paintings and sculptures, terracottas, ivories, jewellery, and an entire cross-section of traditional Indian textiles.
1989
Published on the occasion of opening of the Nehru Gallery of Indian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the volume presents over 200 of the finest treasures from the collection in a study which discusses the arts of Mughal, Rajput and British India in the social and cultural context of their time. The catalogue and the illustrations therein show the vitality of the products of Indian art and culture during this period and the technical skill and aesthetic genius of the artists who made them.
Arts of India
1550–1900
Edited by John Guy and Deborah Swallow
248 pages, 185 colour and 16 b&w illustrations and 3 maps
8.5 x 11” (216 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-0-944142-59-2
Co-published with Victoria and Albert Museum
1990
Art of Tibet
Pratapaditya Pal
344 pages, 56 colour and 233 duotone photographs
8.75 x 11.75” (222 x 299 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-0-944142-58-5
Co-published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This expanded edition about the Tibetan art collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes 65 works added to the collection since the book’s first publication in 1983. With art-historical essays and detailed analysis of the works, the volume features a comprehensive group of 12th– to 19th–century paintings and illustrated manuscripts and sculptures and ritual objects.
The City Palace Museum Udaipur is an impressive showcase of the art, history and traditions of the Mewar kingdom and its nobility. Among the museum’s varied collections is an outstanding group of unusually large pictures of court life that were painted at Udaipur from around 1700 until as late as the 1940s. Almost unknown until the first publication of this volume in 1990, these remarkable paintings are here fully discussed and illustrated in colour.
The City Palace Museum Udaipur
Paintings of Mewar Court Life
Text by Andrew Topsfield and Photographs by Pankaj Shah
170 pages, 119 colour and 5 sepia illustrations
9 x 12” (229 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-21-8
Reprint 2009
Co-published with The City Palace Museum
1992
Company Paintings
Indian Paintings of the British Period
Mildred Archer
240 pages, 152 colour, 7 b&w illustrations and a map
8.5 x 11” (216 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-0-944142-17-2
Co-published with Victoria and Albert Museum
During the 18th and 19th centuries, after the collapse of indigenous patronage, Indian artists frequently made paintings for the British in India. Their work, a blend of Indian and British styles, is known as ‘Company painting’ and is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by over 2,600 examples. In this catalogue, Dr Mildred Archer discusses the evolution of this type of painting and describes the museum’s collection according to the various regions in which it was produced.
First of the two volumes devoted to the large collection of Indian painting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this catalogue covers the Buddhist and Jain manuscript illumination, illustrated books dating from the Sultanate period (c. 1200–1526), and Mughal and Deccani painting and calligraphy created between 1550 and 1700. Each of the 115 paintings reproduced, many in additional detail, is discussed in terms of iconography, style and history.
Indian Painting
A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Volume 1 1000–1700 Pratapaditya Pal
384 pages, 315 illustrations with 75 plates in four colours
8.75 x 11.75” (222 x 299 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-22-8
Co-published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1993
Gods, Guardians, and Lovers
Temple Sculptures from North India
B.D. Chattopadhyaya, Vishakha N. Desai, Phyllis Granoff, Darielle Mason, Michael W. Meister and Michael D. Willis
288 pages, 75 colour and 100 duo-tone photographs, and 20 drawings
9.25 x 12” (235 x 305 mm), hc & sc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-10-5
Co-published with The Asia Society Galleries
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organised by the Asia Society Galleries in 1993 at the Asia Society Galleries, New York, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, this catalogue brings together north Indian sculptures from public and private collections in the United States, India, England and Europe. These sculptures from medieval Indian temples are studied within their architectural, religious, philosophical, and historical context.
Accompanying the 1993 exhibition of the same name, which was selected one of the four winners in the Sixth Annual AAM Curators’ Committee Exhibit Competition, this volume celebrates the diversity of the vast subcontinent by examining little known folk traditions of village and nomad peoples. It presents the world of arts in rural India, all set against a backdrop of painted walls and desert skies, many of which involve the adornment of homes and altars, and dress, and the creation of clay vessels and images.
Mud, Mirror and Thread
Folk Traditions of Rural India
Edited by Nora Fisher
240 pages, 158 colour photographs 9 x 12” (229 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-18-1
Reprint 1995, 2000, 2006 (Reprinted in sc and hc)
Co-published with Santa Fe Museum of International Folk Art
Pleasure Gardens of the Mind
Indian Paintings from the Jane Greenough Green Collection
Pratapaditya Pal, Stephen Markel and Janice Leoshko
160 pages, 67 colour and 5 b&w illustrations
8.75 x 10” (222 x 254 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-15-0
Co-published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1993, the paintings in this catalogue provide glimpses into some of the many worlds painted by the Rajput and Mughal artists in the 16th to 19th centuries. Divided thematically into religious, romantic, musical and courtly subjects, the 61 paintings featured here reveal various scenes as they appeared before the mind’s eye of an artist.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organised by Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore and National Museum, New Delhi and held at the National Museum, Singapore, in 1995, this publication explores the Indian notion of ornamentation—Alamkara—in the context of objects made for use in domestic, religious and courtly settings.
Alamkara
50 years of Indian Art
Essays by R.C. Sharma, Jagdish Mittal, Ratan Parimoo, Kwa Chong Guan
144 pages, 101 colour, 31 b&w illustrations
8.5 x 11” (216 x 280 mm), sc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-25-9
Co-published with National Heritage Board
1994
1997
Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting
Jyotindra Jain
136 pages, 78 colour and 31 b&w illustrations
8.5 x 11” (216 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-46-4
Co-published with The Mithila Museum
Published in association with The Mithila Museum in Niigata, Japan, this volume is a first of its kind tracing the work of and evolution of a rural artist from India. Ganga Devi practised the art of Mithila painting—an old tradition in the northern region of Bihar of painting the walls of the nuptial chamber. This book traces Ganga Devi’s artistic evolution from her early paintings to her venturing out into narrative then autobiographical work, and inventing, wherever required, a new pictorial vocabulary.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in 1999, the catalogue celebrates Devi, the Great Goddess, ubiquitous in India’s social and spiritual fabric over the millennia. With the 120 diverse examples brought together, the volume explores facets of Devi worship and tradition, including ritual, architecture, literature, history, and contemporary issues such as feminism and gender politics.
Devi
The Great Goddess
Vidya Dehejia
408 pages, 208 colour and 175 b&w illustrations 11 x 12” (280 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-63-1
Co-published with Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
1999
2000
Feet & Footwear In Indian Culture
Jutta Jain-Neubauer
172 pages, 131 colour and 26 b&w illustrations 9 x 11” (229 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-69-3
Co-published with Bata Shoe Museum Foundation
Published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Paduka: Feet and Footwear in the Indian Tradition’ in 1999–2000 at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, this catalogue presents the religious and historical significance of feet and footwear in Indian art and culture. The richness and variety of ancient and traditional footwear are lavishly illustrated, with outstanding examples of the typical toe-knob sandals worn by mendicants and holy men and the beautifully embroidered shoes of the wealthy. Rare information on footwear has been culled from lesser-known Buddhist and Jain sources concerning the monastic life of monks.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in 2000, this volume presents the Indian subcontinent in 134 photographs shot between 1840 and 1911. The essays in this book reveal the history and importance of photography in India, from the appeal of the panorama to the documentation of Indian landscape, people, and architecture.
India: Through the Lens
Photography 1840–1911
Edited by Vidya Dehejia
318 pages, 220 quadratone sepia photographs 11 x 9.5” (280 x 241 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-73-0
Reprint 2006 twice in hc and sc
Co-published with Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2000
2001
Intimate Worlds
Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellek Collection
Alvin O. Bellak, et al.
216 pages, 95 colour, 50 b&w illustrations and a map 11 x 11” (280 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-85-3
Co-published with Philadelphia Museum of Art
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2001, this catalogue presents around 90 Indian miniature paintings spanning the period from before the rise of Islamic Mughal rule in northern India during the 1500s to the heyday of the British Raj in 19th century. The “intimate worlds” evoked by these images vividly illustrate Hindu, Muslim, and Jain religious stories; offer visions of life at court; and explore the pleasure and pains of love.
Published in association with Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, and Prashant H. Fadia Foundation, Burlington, coinciding with the revitalization of the museum’s 200-year connection with India, this volume charts the early development of commercial and cultural relations between the United States and India in the Age of Sail. Material embodiments of India at the time—prints, paintings, and figurines depicting Indian scenes and people—augment and illustrate the story.
Yankee India
American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 1784–1860
Susan S. Bean
288 pages, 182 colour illustrations 9 x 11” (229 x 280 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-85822-83-9
Co-published with Peabody Essex Museum
2002
Jewels on the Crescent
Masterpieces of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Vastu Sangrahalaya
Kalpana Desai
356 pages, 386 illustrations
9 x 12” (229 x 229 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-00-7
Co-published with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Vastu Sangrahalaya
Published in association with the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, this volume catalogues the museum’s collection that includes one of the most important collections of miniature paintings in the country, important sculptures of Buddhist imagery and decorative arts such as textiles, jade, wood and ivory, among other mediums, which provide a glimpse of the inherent skills of the Indian craftsmen of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organised by the American Federation of Arts and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in 2003 held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Dallas Museum of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, this catalogue is a significant addition to the literature on the exquisite temple bronzes produced during the Chola period, a time of unparalleled creativity in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
The
Sensuous and the Sacred Chola Bronzes from South India
Edited
by
Vidya Dehejia
255 pages, 152 colour and 25 b&w photographs
10 x 12” (254 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-10-6
Co-published with American Federation of Arts
2002
2003
Art from the Indian Subcontinent
Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Volume 1 Pratapaditya Pal
352 pages, 198 duotone and 152 colour photographs
9.75 x 11.75” (248 x 299 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-24-3
Co-published with Norton Simon Museum
First in the series of the three catalogues documenting the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, this lavishly illustrated volume concentrates on the sculptures from the Indian subcontinent, except those from the Himalayan regions. Representing almost all schools of Indian schools of Indian sculptural art, and three major religions, the work spans two millennia—from the second century BCE to the 19th century CE.
Published in conjunction with the landmark exhibition in 2003–2004 organised by and held at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., this volume including 200 of the finest works of art created between the 6th and 19th centuries in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Tibet and Bhutan explores the beauty that evolved from the various cultures and spiritual traditions unique to the Himalayas.
Himalayas
An Aesthetic Adventure
Pratapaditya Pal
with contributions by Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautama V. Vajracharya
312 pages, 236 colour and 3 b&w photographs
9.5 x 12” (241 x 304 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-21-2
Co-published with The Art Institute of Chicago
Traces of India
Photography, Architecture and the Politics of Representation 1850-1900
Edited
by Maria Antonella Pelizzari
344 pages, 180 illustrations
9.5 x 10.75” (241 x 273 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-14-4
Co-published with Canadian Center for Architecture
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organised by and held at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, and at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, in 2003–04, this volume investigates the roles played by photographs of Indian architecture from the late 18th century. The inquiry stretches from their pre-history to their migration into book illustrations, calendar art and religious imagery.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum, California, in 2004, Painted Poems presents 80 evocative paintings from the collection of Ramesh and Urmil Kapoor, many of which have been donated to the museum. Offering insightful commentary on each of the paintings featured, the volume also includes an appendix of English translations of the paintings’ inscriptions.
Painted Poems
Rajput Paintings from the Ramesh and Urmil Kapoor Collection
Pratapaditya Pal
192 pages, 107 colour and 45 b&w illustrations
8.75 x 10” (222 x 254 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-32-8
Reprint 2011
Co-published with Norton Simon Museum
2004
2006
I See No Stranger Early Sikh Art and Devotion
B.N. Goswamy, Caron Smith
216 pages, 124 illustrations
10.75 x 10.75” (273 x 273 mm), hc & sc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-77-9
Co-published with Rubin Museum of Art
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, in 2006–07, this volume provides keen insight into early Sikh devotion through works of art identifying the core Sikh beliefs. The artworks include paintings, drawings, textiles, and metalwork, drawn from museum collections in India and the United States and private collections in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Chicago Cultural Center in 2007, and at Salina Art Center, Kansas, and Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2008, this volume features works by 24 artists selected to represent contemporary art-making in India. The first such exhibition in the US and the accompanying publication feature artworks made only in the 21st century in India, with several pieces created solely for the exhibition.
New Narratives
Contemporary Art from India
Betty Seid with contributions by Johan Pijnappel
118 pages, 85 colour illustrations
8.75 x 11.75” (222 x 299 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-88204-82-3
Co-published with Chicago Cultural Center
2007
2008
Delight in Design
Indian Silver for the Raj
Vidya Dehejia with contributions by Wynard Wilkinson, Yuthika Sharma and Dipti Khera
224 pages, 219 photographs
9.5 x 11.5” (241 x 292 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-19-5
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Presents a never-before exhibited selection of silverware produced by Indian craftsmen from varying parts of the British India empire. This volume accompanies an exhibition of around 170 pieces from the Paul F. Walter collection, with a few objects from the collection of Julian Sands, held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery at Columbia University in 2008.
Published in association with Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur and Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan, this compendium details the origin, history and importance of the government-managed museums in Rajasthan, India. The spectacular collections housed at Ajmer, Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jhalawar, Jodhpur, Kota, Mandor, Mt Abu, Pali, Sikar, Ahar and Udaipur, illustrate the glorious heritage of the erstwhile Rajputana kingdoms.
Museums of Rajasthan
Chandramani Singh
208 pages, 225 photographs and a map
10 x 12” (254 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-22-5
8.3 x 10” (211 x 254 mm), sc with gatefold
ISBN: 978-81-89995-23-2
Co-published with Jawahar Kala Kendra and Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan
2009
Sonabai Another Way of Seeing
Stephen P. Huyler • Foreword by Leslie Umberger
128 pages, 178 colour photographs with a DVD 7.5 x 9.75” (191x 248 mm), sc with gatefold
ISBN: 978-81-89995-28-7
Co-published with Mingei International Museum
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held in 2010 at Mingei International Museum, San Diego, this catalogue and the accompanying DVD present the life and work of the self-taught artist Sonabai Rajawar, whose story expresses the capacity of human beings everywhere to meet their challenges head-on. Through insightful documentation and evocative images in colour, it conveys Sonabai’s life and that of her family and community, portraying the remarkable productivity that resulted from her isolation after her marriage.
Published in association with Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan, this catalogue presents a selection of the treasures on exhibit at the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, Rajasthan, with annotated notes on each masterpiece. The renovation of Albert Hall—one of the finest museums of the 19th century with a repository of 19,000 objects—was completed in July 2008.
Treasures of the Albert Hall Museum
Jaipur
Chandramani Singh
120 pages, 157 colour illustrations 9 x 12” (229 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-26-3
Co-published with Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan
Victorious Ones
Jain images of Perfection
Edited by Phyllis Granoff with essays by John E Cort, Robert J Del Bontà, Paul Dundas, Julia A. B. Hegewald, Padmanabh S Jaini, Kim Plofker and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
308 pages, 188 colour illustrations
9.75 x 11.75” (248 x 299 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-29-4
Co-published with Rubin Museum of Art
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, in 2009–10, Victorious Ones presents the different aspects of Jainism through Jain art, comprising sculptures and paintings as well as illustrated manuscripts of sacred texts. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have never been published before.
Produced in association with the Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA), Belgium, this catalogue is a richly illustrated testament to contemporary Indian devotional art. Also published in French and Dutch, it features the extensive and unique collection of Vaishnava art at the museum by Indian artists, along with works from Nepal, Tibet, Thailand and Indonesia, which includes modern paintings in traditional styles, metal icons, stone sculptures, ritual objects, masks and puppets.
Living Traditions in Indian Art
Edited by Martin Gurvich
with a scholarly essay by Tryna Lyons
272 pages, 240 colour illustrations
9.5 x 11.5” (241 x 292 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-41-6
Co-published with Museum of Sacred Art
2010
The Artful Pose
Early Studio Photography in Mumbai c.1855-1940
Rahaab Allana
88 pages, 57 illustrations
9.5 x 10.75” (241 x 273 mm), sc with gatefold
ISBN: 978-81-89995-40-9
Co-published with Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum and The Alkazi Collection of Photography
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held in 2010 at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, and drawn from the remarkable Alkazi Collection of Photography, this catalogue explores the arrival, dissemination and advancement of studio photography in Mumbai, through the work of both European and Indian cameramen of the time. Taking an art-historical view of the developments in photography, it presents the history of not only early photography but also of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Published to accompany the exhibition in 2010 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the volume traces the development of portrait-painting within the vast body of Indian painting over a period of 300 years. With a wonderful combination of striking images and succinct text, this rich record explores the development of styles, techniques and subjects from the 16th to 19th century.
The Indian Portrait 1560–1860
Edited by Rosemary Crill and Kapil Jariwala with contributions by J.P. Losty, Kapil Jariwala, Robert Skelton, Rosemary Crill and Susan Stronge
176 pages, over 100 illustrations 9 x 11.25” (229 x 286 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-37-9
Co-published with National Portrait Gallery, London
2011
Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883—Volume 1
T.H. Hendley • with introductory notes by Asha Singh
168 pages, 68 illustrations 10 x 14” (254 x 356 mm), hc Facsimile edition
ISBN: 978-81-89995-54-6
Co-published with Jawahar Kala Kendra
Published in association with Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, this facsimile edition of a rare copy of Volume I of the four-part set recreates for modern-day scholars and connoisseurs the splendours documented by Colonel Thomas Holbein Hendley.
The original Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883, Vol. I, Industrial Art was authored by Col. Hendley for H.H. the Maharaja of Jeypore to commemorate the exhibition held in 1883 at the Naya Mahal, now known as Sawai Man Singh Town Hall.
Produced in conjunction with the exhibitions of Rabindranath Tagore's paintings held in eight cities across the world as part of India’s National Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in 2011, organized by Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The works are drawn from the collections of the Visva-Bharati university, Santiniketan, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
The Last Harvest Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
Edited by R Siva Kumar
240 pages, 235 illustrations
9 x 12” (229 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-61-4
Reprint 2012
Co-published with National Gallery of Modern Art and Ministry of Culture, Government of India
2011
Vishnu
Hindusim's Blue-Skinned Savior
Edited by Joan Cummins
296 pages, 236 colour illustrations
10 x 11.5” (254 x 292 mm), hc & sc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-48-5
Co-published with Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of same name held at Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, and the Brooklyn Museum in 2011—the first major exhibition in North America devoted to the intriguing and complex manifestations of Lord Vishnu. The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue were conceived, organized, and coordinated for the Frist Center by guest curator Joan Cummins.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2012 organized by the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, in collaboration The Met. The forty eminent painters chosen for this exhibition are among the greatest in the history of Indian painting, each of whom could lay claim to the honorific titles bestowed by Mughal emperors on their most prized painters—Nadir al-Asr, “Wonder of the Age,” and Nadir al-Zaman, “Wonder of the Times.”
Wonder of the Age
Master Painters of India 1100–1900
John Guy and Jorrit Britschgi
224 pages, 165 illustrations and 3 maps
9.25 x 10.25” (235 x 261 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-60-7
Co-published with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2012
The Imperial Image Paintings for the Mughal Court
Milo Cleveland Beach
232 pages, 264 illustrations
9.9 x 12.5” (252 x 318 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-81-89995-62-1
Co-published with Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Revised and expanded edition of the 1981 book presenting the collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art, author Milo Beach adds in this volume many of the outstanding works that entered the collection with the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1987. Together, the Freer and Sackler galleries, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, have the distinction of being one of the world’s leading repositories of Mughal art.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in 2014, as part of the europalia.india festival held in collaboration with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, this catalogue shines a light on pioneering photography in India through a selection from the magnificent collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs and negatives from the Alkazi Collection of Photography.
Unveiling India
The Early Lensmen (1850–1910)
Rahaab Allana and Davy Depelchin
104 pages, 100 photographs
9.5 x 10.75” (241 x 273 mm), sc with gatefold
ISBN: 978-81-89995-84-3
Co-published with The Alkazi Collection of Photography, New Delhi, europalia.india, Indian Council for Cultural Relations and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
2014
2015
Gates of the Lord
The Tradition of Krishna Paintings
Edited by Madhuvanti Ghose with contributions by Amit Ambalal, Kalyan Krishna, Tryna Lyons, Anita B. Shah and Emilia Bachrach
176 pages, 170 colour and 19 b&w illustrations
9 x 12” (229 x 305 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-93-85360-05-3
Published in association with The Art Institute of Chicago
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by and held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, this important volume, illustrated with more than 100 vivid images, offers a new, in-depth look at the Pushtimarg sect and its rich aesthetic traditions, which are largely unknown outside of Asia. Essays by eminent scholars of Indian art focus on the style of worship, patterns of patronage, and artistic heritage that generated pichvais, large paintings on cloth designed to hang in temples, as well as other paintings for the Pushtimarg.
A first of its kind, this volume presents a fully illustrated compilation of nineteen pieces of 19th-century temple hangings from South India in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. Produced in the kalamkari style of hand drawing, mordant-dyeing and painting, majority of these pieces are from coastal Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, with one extraordinary Ramayana hanging from Sri Lanka. Accompanied with translations of their inscriptions, and a summary of the story depicted therein, the ‘frame-by-frame’ analyses of these narratives yield a fascinating range of stories, from versions of the Ramayana to local epics.
Kalamkari Temple Hangings
Anna L. Dallapiccola
192 pages, 120 colour illustrations
8.75 x 11.25” (222 x 286 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-93-85360-04-6
Co-published with Victoria and Albert Museum
2019
Lightning by M.F. Husain
Edited by Marguerite Charugundla
132 pages, 124 photographs, 9 x 11” (228 x 280 mm), hc–plc
ISBN: 978-93-85360-68-8
Published in association with TamarindArt and Asia Society Museum
Conceived in honour of the leading Indian modern artist M.F. Husain in conjunction with ‘M.F. Husain: Art and the Nation’—the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artworks of the Progressive Artists’ Group, in 2019 at Asia Society Museum, New York, and part of the ‘Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for New India’ and the Asia Society Triennial.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Grinnell College Museum of Art in 2022. Featuring 90 works from the collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, the exhibition was curated by Prof. Tamara Sears with student participation as part of a Curatorial Studies seminar in Rutgers University’s Department of Art History.
Paper Trails
Modern Indian Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection
Edited by Tamara Sears
232 pages, 149 illustrations 9 x 10" (228.6 x 254 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-93-94501-07-2
Published in association with Grinnell College Museum of Art
2022
2023
Sayed Haider Raza
Edited by Ashok Vajpeyi
296 pages, 255 illustrations and 14 photographs 10 x 11” (254 x 280 mm), hc-plc
ISBN: 978-93-85360-87-9 (English)
ISBN: 978-93-85360-91-6 (French)
Published in association with The Raza Foundation and Centre Pompidou
Accompanying the most comprehensive and the largest-ever exhibition in Paris of the works of leading Indian modern artist Sayed Haider Raza at the Centre Pompidou in 2023, as part of the artist’s birth centenary celebrations, this catalogue— also published in French—explores Raza’s artistic trajectory from the time of his arrival in Paris, and his contribution to the development of modernism in India.
Tree & Serpent
Early Buddhist Art in India
John Guy
344 pages, 322 illustrations and 3 maps
9 x 12.25” (228 x 311 mm), hc
ISBN: 978-93-94501-16-4
Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published in conjunction with the exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from July 21 to November 13, 2023, this eponymous catalogue presents the story of the origins of Buddhist art in India from the first century BCE to the early fourth century CE. This assembly of rare artworks includes a number of objects that have recently been excavated from monastic sites in India and have never before been publicly exhibited.
List of Collaborators
A
• The Alkazi Collection of Photography, New Delhi 28, 34
• American Federation of Arts, New York 20
• The Art Institute of Chicago 21, 34
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 13, 16, 31
• The Asia Society Galleries, New York 10
• Asia Society Museum, New York 35
• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco 4
B
• The Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, Toronto 13
• Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum 28
C
• Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal 21
• Centre Pompidou, Paris 38
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai 17
• Chicago Cultural Center 23
• The City Palace Museum, Udaipur 7
D
• Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan 26, 27
F
• Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 16, 31
• Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville 30
G
• Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa 38
I
• Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi 34
J
• Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur 26, 29
L
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art 6, 10, 11
M
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 4, 31, 39
• Mingei International Museum, San Diego 26
• Ministry of Culture, Government of India 30
• Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York 23
• The Mithila Museum, Niigata, Japan 12
• Museum of Sacred Art, Belgium 28
N
• National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi 30
• National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi 5
• National Heritage Board, Singapore 12
• National Portrait Gallery, London 29
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena 20, 22
P
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem 17
• Philadelphia Museum of Art 16
R
• The Raza Foundation, New Delhi 38
• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 34
• Rubin Museum of Art, New York 22, 27
S
• Santa Fe Museum of International Folk Art, New Mexico 11
T
• TamarindArt, New York 35
V
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London 5, 6, 7, 35
Front cover: La Terre, 1977, by Sayed Haider Raza, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (from Sayed Haider Raza, see p. 38)
Back cover: Sir Waghji Ravaji, Thakur Sahib of Morvi (1858–1922), c. 1903, photograph by Walery, The British Library, Oriental & India Office Collection (from India Through the Lens, see p. 16)
Image credits
Pages 8–9: Maharana Mewar Historical Publications Trust, Udaipur (from The City Palace Museum, Udaipur)
Pages 14–15: Jyotindra Jain (from Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting)
Pages 18–19: Dr. Siddharth Bhansali (from India Through the Lens)
Pages 24–25: Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan, Jaipur (from Treasures of the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur)
Pages 32–33: Private Collection, Europe (from Vishnu)
Pages 36–37: The Raza Foundation, New Delhi (from Sayed Haider Raza)
Page 39: Archaeological Museum ASI, Nagarjunakonda, Andhra Pradesh (from Tree and Serpent)
