Description
Around 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood of the city's palaces, lakes, and mountains. A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur explores how painters depicted places, mapped terrains, and triggered memories to foster political and personal attachments to land through dazzling paintings that were made over a two-century period spanning from Mughal to colonial India—paintings which have never before been published or exhibited in the United States. The book opens up new interpretative possibilities by displacing the figure of the king to examine social networks, cultural landscapes, pleasure, and politics by drawing upon previously untranslated sources and by engaging with the latest scholarship on the history of the senses.
Museum Story
The National Museum of Asian Art is a global resource for understanding Asian arts, cultures, and societies and their intersection with the United States. Opened in 1923 as the country's first national art museum, it now stewards one of the world's best collections of Asian art, which date from antiquity to the present, from China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Ancient Near East, and the Islamic world (including Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa). The museum also holds an important array of 19th- and early 20th-century American art of the Aesthetic Movement.
Details
- Hardcover
- 400 pages
- 270 color illustrations
- 11.5" x 10"
- Written by Debra Diamond (Elizabeth Moynihan Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art) and Dipti Khera (associate professor in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University)
