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Real birds in imagined gardens : Mughal painting between Persia and Europe

Title
  1. Real birds in imagined gardens : Mughal painting between Persia and Europe / Kavita Singh.
Published by
  1. Los Angeles, California : Getty Research Institute, Getty Publications, [2017]
Author
  1. Singh, Kavita

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Additional authors
  1. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
Description
  1. vii, 107 pages : color illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
  1. "Mughal painting is said to have begun in the mid-16th century as an offshoot of Persian painting. Within a few decades, however, Mughal art was transformed by European Renaissance art. Most accounts of Mughal painting trace a straightforward "evolutionary" path, with Mughal artists abandoning the Persianate style in favor of a European one. But in her essay, Singh demonstrates that the history of Mughal painting is by no means linear. During the reigns of the emperors Akbar (1556-1605) and Jahangir (1605-27), Mughal painting underwent repeated cycles of adoption, rejection, revival of both Persian and European styles. Singh suggests that the adoption and rejection of these styles was motivated as much by aesthetic interest as by court politics. By methodically unraveling this entangled history of politics and style, Singh explores new ways of understanding the significance of naturalism and stylization in Mughal art." -- Provided by publisher.
Series statement
  1. Getty Research Institute Council lecture series
Uniform title
  1. Getty Research Institute Council lecture series.
Alternative title
  1. Looking east, looking west.
Subject
  1. Islamic painting
  2. Painting, Mogul Empire
  3. Europe
  4. History
  5. Painting, Mogul Empire > History
  6. Islamic painting > India > History
  7. Painting, Renaissance > Influence
  8. India
  9. Painting, Renaissance > Europe > Influence
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Call number
  1. JQD 17-293
Note
  1. "Real Birds in Imagined Gardens publishes Kavita Singh's lecture titled Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe, held at the Getty Center on 19 November 2015" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-103).
Author
  1. Singh, Kavita, author.
Title
  1. Real birds in imagined gardens : Mughal painting between Persia and Europe / Kavita Singh.
Publisher
  1. Los Angeles, California : Getty Research Institute, Getty Publications, [2017]
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Getty Research Institute Council lecture series
  2. Getty Research Institute Council lecture series.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-103).
Added author
  1. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
Added title
  1. Looking east, looking west.
LCCN
  1. 2016032497
Other standard identifier
  1. 40026921576
ISBN
  1. 9781606065181 (paperback)
  2. 1606065181 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JQD 17-293
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