Author: Jiwan Sodhi
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 392
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170173427
Description
This study of Bundi miniatures attempts to apprehend the trends and tendencies in the development of Bundi art style during late 16th century to mid 19th century.
Rajasthan with its art activity scattered over the entire land with Mewar, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Kotah, Uniara, Kishangarh, Jaipur and Bundi as its principal centers, has to its credit some of the world's masterpieces in miniature paintings.
Rajasthan is a legendary land of chivalry, sacrifice, romance and heroism. It is a place where colors, too, assume the magnitude of legends making it also the legendary land of India's miniature paintings. Rajasthan and colors are synonymical be it the colors in the eyes of a coy maiden; the glowing gold on the countenance of a youth; the brilliant colors of Rajasthani costumes, or the colors scattered on the leaves of paper.
The author has tried to find out the great secret and the mystic strength of inherent lines and colors of Bundi paintings and has thus attempted to know the great ocean by a segment of it.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Sketches
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
(A) Brief History of States of Rajasthan - Mewar, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaipur, Kishangarh and Kotah
(B) Political, Social and Cultural History of Bundi, its relation to other Rajput States and the Mughal court
CHAPTER II
BUNDI SCHOOL OF PAINTING
(A) Origin and Development of Bundi School of Painting
(B) Thematic Classification of Bundi School of Painting
PART I
Nayaka -Nayika Bheda
PART II
Baramsa
PART III
Ragamala
PART IV
Krishna-Lila
PART V
Portraits
PART VI
Hunting
PART VII
Harem or Zanana
CHAPTER III
ELEMENTS/ PRINCIPLES/ CHARACTERISTICS OF BUNDI PAINTING
PART I
Technique
PART II
Line
PART III
Plan and Perspective
PART IV
Figures
PART V
Color, Mass, Volume
PART VI
Light and Shade or Chiaroscuro
PART VII
Texture
PART VIII
Landscapes
PART IX
Expressions in Compositions
PART X
Interior Decoration
PART XI
Props
PART XII
Serials
CHAPTER IV
CRITICAL APPRECIATION AND ANALYSIS OF BUNDI SCHOOL OF PAINTING
CHAPTER V
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BUNDI STYLE WITH OTHER SCHOOLS OF RAJASTHAN, PARTICULARLY BIKANER, KISHANGARH, KOTAH, UNIARA, JAIPUR AND MUGHAL
PART VI
CONTRIBUTION OF BUNDI STYLE AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIAN MINIATURES
APPENDICES
Appendix I - V
Bibliography
Glossary
Index