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Cummins, Joan

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Acknowledgments

Joan Cummins

Indian Painting from Cave Temples to the Colonial Period

~The publication of this book was made possible by a generous grant from the Christian Humann Foundation.

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Joan Cummins

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21177

Acknowledgments

The publication of this book was made possible by a generous grant from the Christian Humann Foundation.

I would like to thank John Seyller, whose keen eye, extensive scholarship, and generosity as a colleague helped me enormously when I was an assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and well before. His assistance with an early draft of this manuscript was invaluable.

This volume would not have come to light were it not for the efforts of numerous members of the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts. I would like to thank Joan Wright, Kim Nichols, and John Robbe for taking such good care of the paintings and for inspiring me to look at them in new ways. If this book is a success it is because of the expertise of my tireless editor, Emiko Usui, the photographer, Greg Heins, and the designer, Cynthia Randall. The curators and assistants of the Department of the Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa and the staffs of the Publications and Development departments all contributed their expertise and moral support.

Several past volunteers and interns at the MFA require special thanks, as they dedicated long hours to research and documentation of the Indian painting collection: Michiko Endo, Archana Vahalia, Poonam Arora, and Eva Hericks-Bares.

I would also like to thank my husband, Paul. And even though she was really no help at all, I would like to dedicate this book to my daughter, Grace, who gestated, was born, and matured along with its text.

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BOOKIndian Painting from Cave Temples to the Colonial Period

Joan Cummins

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00248

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21165

From refined portraits of resplendent maharajas to earthy depictions of divine rogues cavorting with milkmaids, Indian miniature paintings depict the world as it should be: radiant, plentiful and passionate. These manuscript illustrations combine vibrant color with exquisite delicacy, offering immediate impact while also rewarding lengthy examination.

This fascinating volume presents the art form for non-specialists, surveying the most notable styles and periods of Indian painting and offering an introduction to the legends and historic personalities that inspire its entertaining subjects. The text covers such diverse topics as scriptures written on palm leaves, likenesses of favorite animals, images inspired by music, techniques and materials, and Indian reactions to European art. The Museum of Fine Art Boston's collection of Indian paintings, assembled by the esteemed scholar A. K. Coomaraswamy, is justly renowned as one of the finest in the world, and Indian Painting, one of the only readily available comprehensive histories of the subject, is the first book since Coomaraswamy's seminal catalogues of the 1920s to draw so extensively on the MFA's collection. It includes 120 of the most remarkable pieces, many of which are reproduced in color for the first time.

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Joan Cummins

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Print publication date January 2006 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780878467068

EISBN 9780300260519

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