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Informationen zum Autor Madhuvanti Ghose is the Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan, and Islamic Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Amit Ambalal is an artist, author, and collector of Nathdwara paintings living in Ahmedabad, India. Kalyan Krishna is a retired professor in the Department of History of Art at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Tryna Lyons is a Seattle-based art historian who has published on the painting practices of Rajasthan. Anita B. Shah is a museum consultant living in Hyderabad, India. Emilia Bachrach holds a Ph.D. in Asian Cultures and Languages, with a focus on South Asian religions and literatures, from the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext "The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the 15th century, possesses a unique culture--reaching back centuries and still vital today--in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This volume, illustrated with nearly 200 vivid images, offers a new, in-depth look at the Pushtimarg and its rich aesthetic traditions, which are largely unknown outside of Asia. Original essays by eminent scholars of Indian art focus on the style of worship, patterns of patronage, and artistic heritage that generated pichhvais, large paintings on cloth designed to hang in temples, as well as other paintings for the Pushtimarg. In this study, the authors examine how pichhvais were and still are used in the seasonal and daily veneration of Shrinathji, an aspect of Krishna as a child who is the chief deity of the temple town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan. Gates of the Lord introduces readers not only to the visual world of the Pushtimarg, but also to the spirit of Nathdwara"-- Zusammenfassung "Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago! September 13! 2015/January 3! 2016." ...
