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Joan Cummins

Indian Painting from Cave Temples to the Colonial Period

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Joan Cummins

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Surveys and Overviews

Beach, Milo C. Mughal and Rajput Painting. Vol. 1, bk. 3, The New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Losty, Jeremiah P. “Introduction.” In The Art of the Book in India, 5–17. London: The British Library, 1982.

Topsfield, Andrew. An Introduction to Indian Court Painting. London: H.M.S.O., 1984.

Welch, Stuart Cary. India: Art and Culture, 1300–1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.

Indian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Jain Painting. Part 4 of Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1924.

——. Rajput Painting. Part 5 of Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1927.

——. Mughal Painting. Part 6 of Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1930.

Eastman, Alvan Clark. The Nala-Damayanti Drawings. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1959.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967.

Pre-Mughal Painting

Behl, Benoy. The Ajanta Caves: Artistic Wonder of Ancient Buddhist India. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Chandra, Moti. Studies in Early Indian Painting. New York: Asia House, 1970.

Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel Ehnbom. “The Pre-Akbar Sources of the Tuti-Nama.” In The Tuti-Nama of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Origins of Mughal Painting, 31–49. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt, 1976.

Doshi, Saryu. Masterpieces of Jain Painting. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1985.

Mughal Painting

Beach, Milo C. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600–1660. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978.

Okada, Amina. Indian Miniatures of the Mughal Court. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992.

Seyller, John. “Scribal Notes on Mughal Manuscript Illustrations.” Artibus Asiae 48, no. 3–4 (1987): 247–77.

——. “The Inspection and Valuation of Manuscripts in the Imperial Mughal Library.” Artibus Asiae 57, no. 3–4 (1997): 243–349.

——. The Adventures of Hamza: Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2002.

Deccani Painting

Zebrowski, Mark. Deccani Painting. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Rajput Subject Matter

Archer, W. G. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry. London: Dover, 2004.

Blurton, T. Richard. Hindu Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Dehejia, Harsha V, ed. A Celebration of Love: The Romantic Heroine in the Indian Arts. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2004.

Ebeling, Klaus. Ragamala Painting. Basel: Ravi Kumar, 1973.

Goswamy, B. N. Essence of Indian Art. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1986.

Rajasthani Painting

Cimino, Rosa Maria. Life at Court in Rajasthan: Indian Miniatures from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Firenze: Mario Luca Giusti, 1985.

Crill, Rosemary. Marwar Painting: A History of the Jodhpur Style. Mumbai: India Book House, 2000.

Topsfield, Andrew, ed. Court Painting at Rajasthan. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2000.

Topsfield, Andrew. Court Painting at Udaipur. Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2001.

Welch, Stuart Cary, ed. Gods, Kings, and Tigers: The Art of Kotah. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1997.

Pahari Painting

Aitken, Molly Emma. “Spectatorship and Femininity in Kangra Style Painting.” In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, edited by Vidya Dehejia, 82–101. Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997.

Goswamy, B. N., and Eberhard Fischer. Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 1992.

Colonial and Modern Painting

Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1992.

Mitter, Partha. Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850–1922: Occidental Orientations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Techniques and Materials

Chandra, Moti. The Technique of Mughal Painting. Lucknow: U. P. Historical Society, 1949.

Purinton, Nancy, and Richard Newman. “A Technical Analysis of Indian Painting Materials.” In Pride of the Princes: Indian Art of the Mughal Era in the Cincinnati Art Museum, edited by Ellen S. Smart and Daniel S. Walker, 107–113. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985.

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