Amit guha (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Bengal witnessed an extraordinary surge of artistic creativity and patronage between the 16th and 19th centuries, resulting in the construction of hundreds of terracotta temples and mosques. Sculpted with intricate panels depicting deities, myths, and scenes from everyday life, these red-brick monuments combine Buddhist, Persian, Hindu, and European influences to forge a distinctly Bengali aesthetic. Drawing on over two decades of research and travel, Amit Guha offers an accessible guide to Bengal's pre-modern architecture, examining the monuments through their historical backgrounds, sculptural magnificence and iconography, and their patrons and architects. Richly illustrated and deeply informed, Tapestries in Brick invites readers to discover these extraordinary buildings firsthand and appreciate their place within the global history of art and architecture.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition mass market paperback in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers, (soft back). 8vo. 7¾'' x 5''. Full printer's code 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 287 pp. Suketu Mehta on Mumbai; Chitra Banerji's 'What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat'; Mark Tully on his childhood in Calcutta; Ian Jack's 'Unsteady People' - on unexpected parallels between Bihar and Britain; Urvashi Butalia on tracing her long-lost uncle; a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa; Ramachandra Guha's 'What We Think of America'; Nirad Chaudhuri writing on his 100th birthday; Rory Stewart among the dervishes of Pakistan; Pankaj Mishra on the making of jihadis in Pakistan; as well as fiction by R. K. Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri and Nell Freudenberger. Slight age tanning to the text block edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. INDIA (Bharat Ganarajya).…