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Dr. M.H.K. Shastri |
Yantra Mahima |
$31.49 $23.62 |
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| The book deals with yantra pooja, design of yantras, the mantras being used for worshiping the yantra, energising (praan prathishtha) the yantra and other usages of the yantras. This book is the first part of work on tantra, mantra and yantra. The contents of this book are purely based on old Sanskrit classics. A detailed method of worshiping the yantras is given in the book which would be beneficial for the readers. The book contains colored pictures of the most popular... |
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Eva Rudy Jansen |
The Book of Hindu Imagery: Gods, Manifestations and Their Meaning |
$15.99 $11.99 |
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| Hinduism is more than a religion; it is a way of ife that has developed over approximately 5 milennia. Its rich and multicultured history, which has no equivalent among the great religions of the world, has made the structure of its mythical and philosophical principles into a highly differentiated maze, of which total knowledge is a practical impossibility. This volume cannot offer a complete survey of the meaning of Hinduism, but Eva Rudy Jansen does provide an extensive compilation of... |
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Agni |
Namaste Savitri: 342 Reproductions in Colour of Paintings by Agni |
$62.99 $47.24 |
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| 342 reproductions in colour of paintings by Agni (Giovanni Tonioni). Every line of Book I Canto I The Symbol Dawn is illustrated by a painting.
With captions and notes in English, Italian, French and German.
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy |
Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art |
$19.49 $14.62 |
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Rambharos Jha |
Waterlife |
$80.49 $60.37 |
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| Waterlife features Mithila art, a vibrant and delicate form of folk painting from Bihar in eastern India. The artist Rambharos Jha grew up on the banks of the legendary river Ganga, and developed a fascination for water and water life. In this book he creates an unusual artist's journal, adapting the motifs of the Mithila style to express his own vision. He frames his art with a playful text that evokes both childhood memory and folk legend. Waterlife is silk-screen printed by hand on handmade... |
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The Mother |
Paintings and Drawings |
$31.49 $23.62 |
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| Trained as a painter in the 1890s at one of the best art studios in Paris, the Mother continued to express herself in art throughout her life. This collection of all the Mother's paintings and drawings will reveal to the discerning eye her rare artistic abilities. The book is beautifully produced with several colour plates.
Contents:
Introduction
Portrait of Sri Aurobindo
Self-portraits
The Paintings
The Drawings
The Mother as an Artist
The Mother on Art
Catalogue of... |
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Bhajju Shyam(Ed.) |
Signature: Patterns in Gond Art |
$43.99 $32.99 |
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| From established artists to emerging talents, Signature features an array of Gond patterns. Gond artists hail from Central India and work with an older tradition of drawing on walls and floors. Yet these artists mark their work as their own with carefully chosen patterns. A valued symbol of memories and stories, the Gond pattern is at once contextual and universal. |
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Vishwa Chander Ohri |
The Technique of Pahari Painting : An Inquiry into Aspects of Materials, Methods and History : (Based Upon Observation and Field –Work) |
$112.99 $84.74 |
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| This richly illustrated book is the first detailed study of the technique of Indian painting with an emphasis on the particulars for crafting of Pahari paintings of the Basohli, the Guler and the Kangra styles. After Moti Chandra’s The Technique of Mughal painting, 1949, numerous articles on various aspects of this subject had appeared in the long intervening period.
The author presents here a comprehensive account of the technique, the methods and the materials used in painting, miniatures... |
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Laxman S. Thakur |
Visualizing a Buddhist Sutra Text and Figure in Himalayan Art |
$43.49 $32.62 |
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| The present volume analyses the inscriptions, murals, and manuscripts of the Avatamsakasutra of the Tabo Monastery. It particularly focuses on the Gandavyuhasutra, which forms part of the larger magnum opus and prescribes ways and means of attaining nirvana. It details the various stages through which a seeker of truth named Sadhana passed during his long spiritual sojourn
The murals comprise lively and continuous narratives that successfully visualize virtually incomprehensible Buddhist... |
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Mary Shepherd Slusser |
Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley (In 2 Volumes) |
$288.49 $216.37 |
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| In these volumes Mary Slusser has documented and illustrated the origins and evolution of the remarkable Nepalese civilization that evolved in the Kathmandu Valley - known for much of its long history as "Nepal Mandala." The author's narrative, 600 plates, 29 figures, and 9 detailed color maps grew out of more than a decade of research. She studied and photographed the sculptures and shrines, mapped the old cities and traced their long-fallen walls, attended festivals, and collected legends and... |
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Champaklal |
Visions of Champaklal |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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| Champaklal - one of the earliest and foremost disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - was their personal attendant for over five decades.
This book presents a collection of his dreams and visions, some with the interpretations given by Sri Aurobindo. An artist of exceptional merit, he has translated some of his dreams and visions in the language of symbolic painting.
Some of these paintings are also included in this collection along with their... |
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Barbara Schmitz |
Mughal and Persian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library, Rampur |
$256.49 $192.37 |
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| During the 19 century and the first half of the 20 century, the Nawwabs of Rampur, the hereditary rulers of Rohilkhand, a district some 75 kilometers east of New Delhi, amassed a large collection of books and art, including illustrated books and album paintings. Their collection was given to the people of India after independence.
The Raza Library at Ramput thus possesses a remarkable collection of Mughal and Persian Paintings and illustrated books. This includes miniatures from the great... |
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Dr. Priyabala Shah |
Vishnudharmottara-Purana |
$102.99 $77.24 |
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| The Visnudharmottara Purana is an encyclopedic work of three khandas and dealing not only with various stories, myths and legends but also with varied subjects, viz. cosmology and cosmogony, division of time, pacification of unfavourable planets and stars, omens and portents, genealogies, manners and customs, penances, results of actions, rules about vrata and Sraddha, description and praise of various kinds of donations law and politics, science of war, anatomy, medicine etc.
This work is... |
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Bob Gibbons |
Erotic Art of the Kathmandu Valley |
$16.49 $12.37 |
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| This book goes a long way to providing an insight into these questions. It gives us glimpses of life depicted as explicityly as it may without hurting the sentiments of more conservative societies. "This 'Naughtiness' of Nepalese art may send blushes to the furthest periphery of your senses. Erotic Art of the Kathmandu Valley', 116 pages, softback, colour photos, discusses the reasons for the erotic art on the temples, and is a cultural guide to this often misunderstood topic.... |
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C.P. Sinha |
Appreciation of Indian Art |
$70.18 $52.64 |
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| Art in India, as in other countries of the world, was principally devoted to the service of religion. It reflects the intimate relationship of ideas and life.Mythology, symbolism and iconography are just vehicles or aids to understand the essence and spirit of Indian art as each symbol or every icon has a specific meaning and is expressed with a specific purpose. To appreciate and enjoy Art in its proper perspective, it is imperative to understand the inner meaning and the philosophy behind the... |
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Meenakshi Chandra |
Satish Chandra: Master of Atmospherics |
$189.95 $142.46 |
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| Satish Chandra was one of the most renowned landscape painters in India. Such was his confidence in his art, and his love for Nature, that he devoted his whole life to painting landscapes. In the end, he acquired a reputation second to none on the Indian art scene. He was the true artist of India's northern plains, and as special, gentle and dignified a person as his art was uplifting. This book is a loving tribute to Satish by his wife, Meenakshi. She was his muse, he was her mentor, and the... |
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S.K. Pandey |
Indian Rock Art |
$50.00 $37.50 |
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| The rock-paintings is the only surviving source through which one can peep into the life of prehistoric people. They help us to know the process of the development, social changes, religion, artistic sensibility of the people of by-gone age.
The book "Indian Rock Art" is pioneering work in the field of rock-paintings based on the thorough survey of painted rock-shelters of India. The book is based on scientific studies conducted by the author which pushed to dates of Indian rock paintings to... |
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The Mother |
About Savitri: With some paintings (Volume III) |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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| In 1968 the Mother commenced her work on Savitri with Huta. The Mother read out passages from Savitri and then after a deep contemplation gave her comments which were tape-recorded and later transcribed by Huta.The Mother named the work About Savitri.
In 1972 Huta offered to the Mother copies of About Savitri, Part One (now out of print), consisting of Book One Canto One. The Mother's message for the book was: "Savitri -- The supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision." Part Two of About... |
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The Mother |
About Savitri: With some paintings (Volume IV) |
$15.99 $11.99 |
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| In 1968 the Mother commenced her work on Savitri with Huta. The Mother read out passages from Savitri and then after a deep contemplation gave her comments which were tape-recorded and later transcribed by Huta. The Mother named the work About Savitri.
In 1972 Huta offered to the Mother copies of About Savitri, Part One (now out of print), consisting of Book One Canto One. The Mother's message for the book was: "Savitri -- The supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision." Part Two of About... |
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Champaklal |
Champaklal as an Artist |
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| Regarding Champaklal's artistic capacity Sri Aurobindo once wrote in the 1930s "Champaklal has a natural talent already developed to an unusual degree."
This commemorative album presents:
Paintings, Drawings and Studies from Life
Paintings Created by Marbling Technique on art paper
Selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on "Beauty and Art"
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Mireille Benisti |
Stylistics of Early Khmer Art (2 Vols Set) |
$288.49 $216.37 |
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| The present volume contains translations of Benisti`s major publications dealing with Khmer art. The main article is a study of the relations between early Khmer and Indian art, i.e.7th and 8th centuries, the crucial period of the introduction of Indian religion and other components of Indian culture in the first well-organized kingdom of Khmer Land Her systematic survey of styles, along with detailed study of iconography, thus provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive study of both... |
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Desmond Peter Lazaro |
Materials, Methods and Symbolism in the Pichhvai Painting Tradition of Rajasthan |
$108.99 $81.74 |
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| The author lovingly documents the entire process of learning the craft, the significance of various colours, positions adopted while preparing them, alchemical changes, myths with which the process is associated, and, not least, the link with Hindu philosophy and tantric practice. He carefully documents a craft: the elaborate and marvellous nature of which may easily bypass the casual observer who gazes at pichhvais with little sense of its amazing attention to detail and combination of... |
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Eva Judy Jansen |
The Book of Buddhas |
$22.95 $17.21 |
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| Modern students who are drawn to the study and practice of Buddhism are not always able to easily learn the symbolic meaning of the various types of statuary connected to the study of this philosophy.
In Buddhism, every symbol has a meaning, and this book explores the symbolism of the ritual objects that are used on statues and painting, as well as explaining the ritual meaning of the objects associated with Buddhism.
This book serves as an introduction for Western students. it is not a... |
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Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur |
Art and Culture Under the Sungas |
$67.38 $50.54 |
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| The Sunga rule marks an important epoch in the political, religious, social, economic and literary field in ancient India.
The author has presented in elaborate form a picture of the developments of the arts of sculpture, architecture and terracotta of this period. A detailed survey of the sources of the material, an exhaustive bibliography, an index and the plates make this book a rich contribution to the study of the art.
About the Author:Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur is M.A., Ph.D. in... |
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Ghulam Yahya |
Crafting Traditions |
$29.48 $22.11 |
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| Our knowledge of Indian society during British rule in the nineteenth century has rested primarily on the voluminous records of the East India Company, the works of various Europeans, the writings of many civil servants of the Company and the accounts of Indians writing in this period. Interesting first-hand and very useful alternative sources are writings of Indians produced on request or assignment by company administrators. Such accounts are by no means readily available; they were probably... |
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