Impressions of Rajasthan / Carisse & Gerard Busquet ; photography by Bruno Morandi
2003, First Edition. Paris : Flammarion ; London : Thames & Hudson. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; Physical desc. : 200 p. : col. Illus. ; 28 cm. Subject: Art - India - Rajasthan. Painting - India - Rajasthan. Rajasthan - Social life and customs. Rajasthan (India) - Social life and customs. Summary: 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 tradition: 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. Item #180707
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