136 pages, hardback, 31 x 23 cm, 163 illustrations (mostly colour)
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ISBN: 978 3 907077 17 7
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After Andrew Topsfield’s recent study Court Painting at Udaipur, which was welcomed by scholars as the definitive research on the Mewar school for long, we are proud to present a monograph on two Devgarh artists that covers the lesser known artistic developments of the history of Mewar painting.
This publication focuses on two master-artists, Bagta and his son Chokha, who worked first for the prestigious court of the Maharanas of Udaipur before they became involved with the rawats of Devgarh in the second half of the eighteenth century and nineteenth century respectively. Less inhibited by long-established pictorial traditions, the cultural atmosphere at Devgarh allowed them to develop their talents more freely. Due to new materials which have recently been found in the Devgarh collection and which are published here for the first time, Beach’s study helps us to understand better this highly distinctive school of painting.
Milo Cleveland Beach, former director of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC., is a brilliant and internationally acknowledged scholar of South Asian art. Some of his publications still rank among the best works ever written on Indian art. This comprehends also his study Rajput Painting at Bundi and Kota published by Artibus Asiae as supplement 32 in 1974.
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