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Exhibition Review
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 513–5
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Terracciano, Emilia (Terracciano, Emilia)
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The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998 Edited by Shanay Jhaveri. 288 pp. incl. 250 col. ills. (Prestel, London and New York, 2024), £45. ISBN 978–3–7913–7769–8. | :
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12. How can you sleep tonight?, by Gulammohammed Sheikh. 1994–95. Oil on canvas, 213.4 by 213.4 cm. (© Gulammohammed Sheikh; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; courtesy the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi).
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13. Shamiana, by Nilima Sheikh. 1996. Six hanging scrolls of casein tempera on canvas, canopy of synthetic polymer paint on canvas and steel frame; dimensions variable. (Queensland Art Gallery Foundation).
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14. My mother, by Arpita Singh. 1993. Oil on canvas, 137.2 by 182.9 cm. (© Arpita Singh; private collection; courtesy Talwar Gallery, New York and New Delhi).
Exhibition Review
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 743–5
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Croft, Catherine (Croft, Catherine)
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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence 2nd March–22nd September Victoria and Albert Museum, London | :
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21. Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry with a model of one of their buildings for the Gold Coast (now Cape Coast) Education Department, Ghana, in 1945. (RIBA Collections, London).
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22. The model for the High Court, Capitol Complex, Sector 1, Chandigarh, by Pierre Jeanneret. c.1951–65. Photograph. (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal)
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23. Detail of the pre-cast concrete screening on the veranda of the library, University College, Ibadan, designed by Fry Drew and Partners. 1955. (RIBA Collections, London).
Book Review
The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 667-668
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Bremner, G.A. (Bremner, G.A.)
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The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962 By Gauvin Alexander Bailey. 488 pp. incl. 206 col. ills. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2022), £52. ISBN 978–0–228–01142–2. | :
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Imagery by Raja Ravi Varma on Raj Silver
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 976-985
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Dehejia, Vidya J. (Dehejia, Vidya J.)
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11. Tea service, designed and made by P. Orr & Sons. 1907. Silver, heights12 cm (teapot), 7.8 cm (sugar bowl) and 9.5 cm (cream jug). (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto).
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12. Detail of the teapot in Fig.11, showing Lakshmi.
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13. Detail of the sugar bowl in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a rock.
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14. Detail of the cream jug in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a rock.
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15. Detail of the sugar bowl in Fig.11, showing Lakshmi.
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16. Detail of the teapot in Fig.11, showing Saraswati seated on a peacock.
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19. Detail of Fig.17 showing Vishvamitra and Shakuntala.
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2. Ahalya, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1898. Chromolithograph, 35.6 by 25.4 cm. (Private collection).
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22. Kamsa-Maya, by Raja Ravi Varma. 1896. Oil on canvas, 168.1 by 116.8 cm. (Royal Gaekwad Collection, Lakshmi Vilas Palace).
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24. Birth of Shakuntala (Shakuntala Janm), after Raja Ravi Varma. c.1894. Chromolithograph, 49.8 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Temptress (Mohini), after Raja Ravi Varma. Undated chromolithograph, 49.8 by 34.8 cm. (Private collection).
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5. Design for a teapot in a Cutch Swamy work tea service, by the Oomersee Mawji silver workshop, Kutch. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 10 by 15 cm. (Private collection).
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6. Arjuna and Subhadra, Visvamitra and Menaka, Shakuntala writing a love-letter and Savitri pleading with Yama for Satyavan’s life, by the Oomersee Mawji silver workshop, Kutch, after Raja Ravi Varma. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 15 by 25 cm. (Private collection).
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7. Saraswati, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1896. Chromolithograph, 69.2 by 49.8 cm. (Private collection).
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8. Lakshmi, by Raja Ravi Varma. c.1896. Chromolithograph, 70.8 by 49.8 cm. (Private collection).
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9. Saraswati seated on a peacock and Lakshmi standing in a lotus pond, by the Oomersee Mawji & Sons silver workshop, Kutch. Late 19th or early 20th century. Pencil on paper, approx. 10 by 15 cm. (Private collection).
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1. Vase depicting a woman with a basket. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 61 cm. (Private collection).
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10. The rear of the vase illustrated in Fig.3.
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17. Kamandalu. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 29 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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18. Detail of Fig.17 showing Vishvamitra and Menaka.
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20. Detail of Fig.17, showing Arjuna and Subhadra.
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21. Detail of Fig.17, showing Kamsa-Maya.
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23. Tea caddy. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 15 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Vase with a scene of a woman on a swing. Indian, twentieth century. Silver, height 61 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India. By Emilia Terracciano
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 887-888
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Singh Johal, Rattanamol (Singh Johal, Rattanamol)
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Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India By Emilia Terracciano. 304 pp. incl. 74 col. + b. & w. ills. (I.B. Tauris, London, 2017), £69. ISBN 978–1–78453–109–6. | :
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7. Untitled, by Nasreen Mohamedi. c.1972. Photograph (courtesy Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; © Heirs of Nasreen Mohamedi).
Book Review
A Mystical Realm of Love: Pahari Paintings from the Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection. By J.P. Losty.
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 870-871
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Kandhari, Jasleen (Kandhari, Jasleen)
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3. The Abhisarika nayika from an Ashtanayika series, attributed to the Guler artist Manaku, c.1750. Opaque pigments with gold on paper, 20.8 by 15.2 cm. (Museum Rietberg, Zurich).
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The identity of the sitters in Joshua Reynolds’s group portrait in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 292-298
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Mitchell, Charlotte (Mitchell, Charlotte)
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Mitchell, Gwendolen (Mitchell, Gwendolen)
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1. Detail of Fig.2.
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2. Group portrait, here identified as Tysoe Saul Hancock, his wife, Philadelphia, their daughter, Elizabeth, and their Indian maid Clarinda, by Joshua Reynolds. c.1763–66. Canvas, 140.8 by 173.7 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
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3. George Clive, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1763. Canvas, 74.9 by 62.2 cm. (Private collection).
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4. Philadelphia Hancock, by John Smart. 1770. Watercolour on ivory, 2 by 1.5 cm. (Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, Hampshire).
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5. Eliza Hancock, French School. 1780. Watercolour on ivory, 6.4 by 4.5 cm. (Private collection).
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6. Warren Hastings, by Joshua Reynolds. 1766–68. Canvas, 126.4 by 101 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Raghubir Singh. New York
01/2018 | 1378 | 160
Pages: 62-63
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Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
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Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs at Met Breuer, New York | :
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39. Boy at bus stop, New Delhi, by Raghubir Singh. 1982. (Succession Raghubir Singh, Paris; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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40. Pavement mirror shop, Howrah, West Bengal, by Raghubir Singh. 1991. (Collection Cynthia Hazen Polsky; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Publication Received
Lost Kingdoms: Hindu–Buddhist Sculpture of Early South East Asia. By John Guy & Buddhist Art of Myanmar. Edited by Sylvia Fraser-Lu and Donald M. Stadtner
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 831-832
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Courtauld, Caroline (Courtauld, Caroline)
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Book Review
Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesque in British India, R. Ray
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 319-320
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Willcock, Sean (Willcock, Sean)
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28. Maharaja Dalip Singh, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Royal Collection, Windsor)
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