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Impressions of Rajasthan
Door Carisse Busquet
Categorie | Azië |
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Boeknummer | #95845 |
Titel | Impressions of Rajasthan |
Auteur | Busquet, Carisse |
Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
Uitgeverij | Paris/London : Flammarion/Thames & Hudson |
Jaar van uitgave | 2003 |
ISBN10 | 208011171X |
ISBN13 | 9782080111715 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Original boards, dust jacket, illusrated with colour photographs, oblong, circa 28.5x29cm. |
Samenvatting | Rajasthan is India's tradition-rich northwest royal province, home of maharajas, of imposing forts and grand palaces, and 3,000 year-old settlements. So it is also a land rich in street color, popular pageantry and a unique ethnic design language. Impressions of Rajasthan takes photography lovers across one of the most inspirational regions on the Indian subcontinent, offering a unique look at the painted imagination of India with murals of pure pattern, mandalic abstractions and figurative story-panels. It is a rich, distinct decorative tradition-often as humorous as it is pious-woven into everyday visual life. Morandi's camera also masterfully captures the everyday lifestyle of contemporary Rajasthan, in particular, Rajasthani women who are the carriers of this pattern language tradit... (Lees verder)ion: chatting in small groups, buying fruit at the market, and painting their homes with murals in which religion, history, and politics are described in a brushstroke. |
Pagina's | 192 |
Conditie | Als nieuw |
Prijs | € 15,00 |
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