Visions of Mughal India /anglais

Topsfield

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854442635 ISBN 13 : 9781854442635

Editeur : Ashmolean Museum, 2012

Physical description: 288 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held Feb. 2-Apr. 22, 2012, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-286). Summary: Renowned British painter and printmaker Howard Hodgkin has been a passionate collector of Indian paintings since his schooldays, and his collection has long been considered one of the finest of its kind in the world. At times he has devoted as much effort to developing his collection as to his own work as a painter. The celebrated artist's full collection of great Mughal art is being presented for the first time at the Ashmolean Museum in an exhibition running from early February to mid-April 2011. Subject: Hodgkin, Howard - Art collections - Exhibitions. Ashmolean Museum. Art, Indic - Themes, motives - Exhibitions. Painting, Mogul - England - Oxford - Exhibitions. India - Civilization - In art - History - 1526-1765 - In art - Exhibitions. Oriental art ; Painting & paintings. Other names: Hodgkin, Howard 1932- Ashmolean Museum. Genre: Bibliography, Catalogue, Illustrated.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Renown British painter and printmaker Howard Hodgkin has been a passionate collector of Indian paintings since his schooldays, and his collection has long been considered one of the finest of its kind in the world. At times he has devoted as much effort to developing his collection as to his own work as a painter. The celebrated artist's full collection of great Mughal art is being presented for the first time at the Ashmolean Museum in an exhibition running from early February to mid-April 2011. The catalogue includes over 110 Indian paintings and drawings. "You need things to look at, things to affect your feelings, and your intelligence, and your heart" the artist has said. Many paintings shown are recent purchases never before exhibited revealing how Hodgkin has constantly refined the collection over the years. The collection comprises most of the main types of Indian court painting that flourished during the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), including the refined naturalistic works of the imperial Mughal court, the poetic and subtly coloured paintings of the Deccani Sultanates, the boldly drawn and vibrantly coloured styles of the Rajput kingdoms of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills. Hodgkin's own art is collected worldwide in museums as diverse as the Tate and the Phillips Collection and Yale Center for British Art in America. In 2003, he was named by England's Queen Elizabeth II as a Companion of Honour. Hodgkin once said his collecting had affected him as an artist but "Not in the way people think", that collecting had made him "Very aware of quality, and increasingly demanding of my own work."

Présentation de l'éditeur :

• This catalogue of over 110 Indian paintings and drawings will show the outstanding private collection of the artist Howard Hodgkin in its entirety and in its full maturity for the first time, after a lifetime's constant improvement and refinement

Howard Hodgkin has been a passionate collector of Indian paintings since his schooldays, and his collection has long been considered one of the finest of its kind in the world. At times he has devoted as much effort to developing his collection as to his own work as a painter.

The collection comprises most of the main types of Indian court painting that flourished during the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), including the refined naturalistic works of the imperial Mughal court, the poetic and subtly coloured paintings of the Deccani Sultanates, the boldly drawn and vibrantly coloured styles of the Rajput kingdoms of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills.