Punjab Painting - Study in Art and Culture

Author: R P SrivastavaPublisher: Abhinav PublicationsYear: 1983Language: EnglishPages: 140ISBN/UPC (if available): 0391025600 DescriptionA comprehensive survey of visual arts - miniature painting, illustrated manuscripts and mural painting - and discovers and establishes for the first time a definitive movement of visual arts which existed in Punjab of nineteenth century.This brings o the attention of scholarly world a rich style of painting known as 'Punjab Painting' hitherto unknown just like other Indian schools of painting viz Mughal, Rajput and Pahari painting with all the salient features of any art movement inherent in it. Special feature of the book lies in the fact that it sheds light on the social life of the painters who made creative and beautiful environments - royal and private both - but thus far remained in oblivion. Simultaneously it seeks to trace the presence of famous artists in both regions and their family genealogies which help us to track down the movement of