Conclusion: The Lives of Rajput Pictorial Forms from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Aitken, Molly Emma

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Conclusion: The Lives of Rajput Pictorial Forms from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting

~The art historian Henri Focillon wrote: “We are always tempted to read into form a meaning other than its own” yet, “form has a significance and form is open to interpretation.... As old meanings are broken down and obliterated, new meanings attach themselves to...

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Molly Emma Aitken

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.286-297

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00246.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21148

Chapter subject tags:Rajput paintingPainting, Southeast AsianCourts and courtiers

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