Magnificent volume on Udaipur artists’ pictorial techniques, which immerse viewers in the lake city’s abundance

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A Splendid Land

Paintings from Royal Udaipur

How and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions and cultural landscapes in South Asia? "A Splendid Land" is the first book to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years that extends from Mughal to colonial India. The works have never been published or exhibited in the United States.

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Around 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood (bhava) of the city’s palaces, lakes, and mountains. "A Splendid Land" explores how painters depicted places, mapped terrains and triggered memories to foster political and personal attachments to land. By examining social networks, ecological relations, and pleasurable pursuits, and by drawing upon previously untranslated sources and engaging with the history of the senses, the catalogue opens early modern art history to new interpretative possibilities.

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A Splendid Land is a beautifully presented volume. The book is a superb achievement, lavishly decorated with abundant and detailed imagery.

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Ed. Debra Diamond, Dipti Khera

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Contributions by M. E. Aitken, C. Glynn Benkaim, Jo. Stratton Hawley, C. Tow, E. N. Stein, S. Mishra, C. Widmer, R. Joyce

Essays by R. Williams, C. Talbot, S. Girikumar, S. Ghuwalewala, V. Kar, B. Shah, A. Mukherjee, S. Jain

400 pages, 270 colour illustrations
24 × 29.2 cm, hardcover

HIRMER PREMIUM
High quality paper, linen binding, dust jacket

ISBN: 978-3-7774-3944-0

Events

Washington D.C. | Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

Cleveland | Cleveland Museum of Art