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South Asia: Art and Architecture Ceramics, Metalwork and Textiles Painting Sculpture

Southeast Asia: Art and Architecture Ceramics, Crafts and Textiles Sculpture

Middle East: Art and Architecture Ceramics, Metalwork and Textiles Gardens Painting and Calligraphy

South Asia

Art and Architecture

Berinstain, Valerie. India and the Mughal Dynasty. New York: Abrams, 1998.

Blurton, T. Richard. Hindu Art. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Chaturachinda, Gwyneth. Dictionary of South and Southeast Asian Art. Chang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm, 2000.

Craven, Roy C. Indian Art: A Concise History. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997.

Dehejia, Vidya. Indian Art. London: Phaidon, 1997.

Fisher, Robert E. Buddhist Art and Architecture. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993.

Harle, James C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Hutt, Michael. Nepal: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. Boston: Shambhala, 1995.

Khanna, Balraj and Aziz Kurtha. Art of Modern India. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998.

Koch, Ebba. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development: 1526-1858. Munich: Prestel, 1991.

Michell, George. The Royal Palaces of India. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998.

Mitter, Partha. Art and Nationalism in Colonial India: Occidental Orientations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India. New York: Viking, 1989.

Stierlin, Henri. Hindu India: from Khajuraho to the Temple City of Madurai. New York: Taschen, 1998.

Ceramics, Metalwork and Textiles

Cooper, Ilay. Arts and Crafts of India. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996.

Dunsmore, Susi. Nepalese Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Fisher, Nora, ed. Mud, Mirror and Thread: Folk Traditions of Rural India. Middletown, NJ: Grantha, 1993.

Murphy, Veronica. Tie-Dyed Textiles of India: Tradition and Trade. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1991.

Perryman, Jane. Traditional Pottery of India. London: A. & C. Black, 2000.

Untracht, Oppi. Traditional Jewelry of India. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Zebrowski, Mark. Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India. London: Alexandria Press, 1997.

Painting

Beach, Milo Cleveland. Mughal and Rajput Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Pr., 1992.

________, and Ebba Koch. King of the World: The Padshahnama, an Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1997.

Brend, Barbara. The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami. London: British Library, 1995.

Mason, Darielle. Intimate Worlds: Masterpieces of Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001.

Rogers, J. M. Mughal Miniatures. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Rossi, Barbara. From the Ocean of Painting: India's Popular Paintings, A.D. 1589 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Pr., 1998.

Seyller, John William. Workshop and Patron in Mughal India: The Freer Ramayana and other Illustrated Manuscripts of Abd al-Rahim. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1999.

Topsfield, Andrew, ed. Court Painting in Rajasthan. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2000.

Tuli, Neville. Indian Contemporary Painting. New York: Abrams, 1998.

Verma, Som Prakash. Mughal Painters and Their Work: A Biographical Survey and Comprehensive Catalogue. Delhi: Oxford University Pr., 1994.

Welch, Stuart Cary, ed. Gods, Kings and Tigers: The Art of Kotah. Munich and New York: Prestel, 1997.

Sculpture

Berkson, Carmel. The Life of Form in Indian Sculpture. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 2000.

Davis, Richard H. Lives of Indian Images. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Dehejia, Vidya. Art of the Imperial Cholas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Huyler, Stephen. Gifts of Earth: Terracottas & Clay Sculptures of India. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts,1996.

Knox, Robert. Amaravati: Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stupa. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Indian Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.

Panikkar, Shivaji K., ed. Twentieth-Century Indian Sculpture: The Last Two Decades. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2000.

Sacred Images of Sri Lanka: Buddhist and Hindu Sculptures from the Sri Lankan National Collections. Sidney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1994.

Zwalf, W. A Catalogue of the Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Southeast Asia

Art and Architecture

Chihara, Daigoro. Hindu-Buddhist Architecture of Southeast Asia. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Dumarcay, Jacques. The Palaces of South-East Asia: Architecture and Customs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Falconer, John, et al. Myanmar Style: Art, Architecture and Design of Burma. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998.

Jessup, Helen. Court Arts of Indonesia. New York: Asia Society, 1990.

Rawson, Philip S. The Art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Java, Bali. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990.

Van Beek, Steve and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni. The Arts of Thailand. Rev. and updateded. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991.

Ceramics, Crafts and Textiles

Brown, Roxanna M. The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification. New York: Oxford University Pr., 1988.

Cultures at Crossroads: Southeast Asian Textiles from the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992.

Fraser-Lu, Sylvia. Burmese Crafts: Past and Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

_____________. Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Guy, John. Ceramic Traditions of South-East Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Richards, Dick. South-East Asian Ceramics: Thai, Vietnamese and Khmer from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Stevenson, John and John Guy. Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 1997.

Warren, William and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni. Arts and Crafts of Thailand. London: Thames & Hudson, 1994.

Sculpture

Fontein, Jan. The Sculpture of Indonesia. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990.

Jessup, Helen and Thierry Zephir. Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997.

Woodward, Hiram W. The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand: The Alexander B. Griswold Collection, the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1997.

Middle East

Art and Architecture

Blair, Sheila and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800. New Haven: Yale University Pr., 1994.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.

Brend, Barbara. Islamic Art. London: British Museum Press, 1991.

Collon, Dominique. Ancient Near Eastern Art. London: British Museum Press, 1995.

Downey, Susan B. Mesopotamian Religious Architecture: Alexander through the Parthians. Princeton: Princeton University Pr., 1988.

Ettinghausen, Richard. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. New ed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2001.

Ferrier, R. W., ed. The Arts of Persia. New Haven: Yale University Pr., 1989.

Frankfort, Henri. The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. New Haven: Yale University Pr., 1996.

Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Pr., 1994.

Irwin, Robert. Islamic Art. London: Laurence King, 1997.

Lewis, Bernard, ed. The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992.

Stierlin, Henri. Islam. New York: Taschen, 1996.

Ceramics, Metalwork and Textiles

Allan, James W. Islamic Ceramics. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1991.

__________. Islamic Metalwork: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection. Rev. ed. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1999.

Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.

Bier, Carol, ed. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries. Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 1987.

Fehervari, Geza. Ceramics of the Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000.

Gunter, Ann C. and Paul Jett. Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Freer Gallery of Art, 1992.

Kawami, Trudy S. Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1992.

Komaroff, Linda. The Golden Disk of Heaven: Metalwork of Timurid Iran. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1992.

Mahboubian, Houshang. Art of Ancient Iran, Copper and Bronze: The Houshang Mahboubian Family Collection. London: Philip Wilson, 1997.

Valcarenghi, Dario. Kilim: History and Symbols. New York: Abbeville, 1994.

Ward, Rachel. Islamic Metalwork. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Gardens

Brookes, John. Gardens of Paradise: The History and Design of the Great Islamic Gardens. New York: New Amsterdam, 1987.

Khansari, Mehdi, M. Reza Moghtader, Minouch Yavari. The Persian Garden: Echoes of Paradise. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1998.

Moynihan, Elizabeth B., ed. The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2000.

Petruccioli, Attilio. Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design. New York: E. J. Brill, 1997.

Painting and Calligraphy

Bahari, Ebadollah. Bihzad: Master of Persian Painting. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1996.

Canby, Sheila R. Persian Painting. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Diba, Layla S. with Maryam Ekhtiar, eds. Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1998.

Fisher, Carol Garrett. Brocade of the Pen: The Art of Islamic Writing. East Lansing: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991.

Grube, Ernst J. Studies in Islamic Painting. London: Pindar, 1995.

Hillenbrand, Robert, ed. Persian Painting, from the Mongols to the Qajars: Studies in Honour of Basil W. Robinson. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000.

James, David Lewis. Qurans of the Mamluks. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1988.

Lowry, Glenn D. with Susan Nemazee. A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1988.

Safwat, Nabil F. Golden Pages: Qurans and Other Manuscripts from the Collection of Ghassan I. Shaker. New York: Oxford University Pr., 2000.

Simpson, Marianna Shreve with contributions by Massumeh Farhad. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript From Sixteenth-Century Iran. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 1997.

Soudavar, Abolala with a contribution by Milo Cleveland Beach. Art of the Persian Courts: Selections From the Art and History Trust Collection. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

 

Prepared by the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art
and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in cooperation with
the Public Inquiry Mail Service, Smithsonian Institution

5/2001

 
 


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