(H/B) PAINTINGS OF THE RAZMNAMA

Παρουσίαση

Nearly fifty years ago, during a year-long London visit, I wrote an article for Lalit Kala on manuscript painting at Agra in circa 1605. It included remarks about the Birla Razmnama. Alas, the article was never printed. While being taken to the Post Office by Underground, my small suitcase opened accidentally and the sole copy of the typed article toppled out. Instantly, it was sucked into the tunnel by the wind of a departing train. While I gawked at the flying spiral of papers, a saintly and responsible Underground employee, barely younger than I am now, scrambled onto the tracks and began to pick up the dozens of 8' by 10' sheets of paper and photographs. A moment later, scared by the rumble of an approaching train, I grabbed the kind volunteers wrists and pulled him to safety, lest he and the article be shredded together. Salient points of the article were passed on to my friend Pramod Chandra, who published them in his article about popular Mughal painting, also for Lalit Kala. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
Stuart Cary Welch
The making of Razmnama
Imaging the Razmnama: The Razmnama Manuscript for Akbar and Other Copies
The Birla Razmnama
CATALOGUE OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Glossary
Bibliography