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Impressions of Rajasthan

Door Carisse Busquet

Categorie
Azië
Boeknummer
#95845
Titel
Impressions of Rajasthan
Auteur
Busquet, Carisse
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Paris/London : Flammarion/Thames & Hudson
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
208011171X
ISBN13
9782080111715
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, illusrated with colour photographs, oblong, circa 28.5x29cm.
Samenvatting
Rajasthan is India's tradition-rich northwest royal province, home of maharajas, of imposing forts and grand palaces, and 3,000 year-old settlements. So it is also a land rich in street color, popular pageantry and a unique ethnic design language. Impressions of Rajasthan takes photography lovers across one of the most inspirational regions on the Indian subcontinent, offering a unique look at the painted imagination of India with murals of pure pattern, mandalic abstractions and figurative story-panels. It is a rich, distinct decorative tradition-often as humorous as it is pious-woven into everyday visual life.

Morandi's camera also masterfully captures the everyday lifestyle of contemporary Rajasthan, in particular, Rajasthani women who are the carriers of this pattern language tradit
... (Lees verder)ion: chatting in small groups, buying fruit at the market, and painting their homes with murals in which religion, history, and politics are described in a brushstroke.
Pagina's
192
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