03699cam a2200481 i 4500952009200000999001900092001000900111003000400120005001700124008004100141010001700182020001800199020001500217025001900232035002400251035002200275037005300297040005400350042002100404043001200425050002700437082002200464100004000486245011400526264007000640300006900710336002600779336003300805337002800838338002700866490003800893500010200931504005701033520171901090600005702809650006002866650002502926700008202951710004103033710007103074906004503145942002703190  00102ddc40709127249aLDDbLDDl0o759.954 G699Mp110597r2018-11-01w2018-11-01yBK  c127250d12725020155307LDD20181126143143.0170912s2017    ii a     b    001 0 eng d  a  2017347008  a9789385285820  a9385285823  aI-E-2017347008  a(OCoLC)on1004659376  a(OCoLC)1004659376  bLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office  aEYMbengcEYMdDKAGEdOCLCFdBP1dOCLCOerdadDLC  alccopycatalcode  aa-ii---00aND1010.3.M36bM36 201704a759.954 G699M2231 aGoswamy, B. N.d1933-eauthor.918710aManaku of Guler :bthe life and work of another great Indian painter from a small hill state /cB.N. Goswamy. 1aNew Delhi :bArtibus Asiae Publishers [with] Niyogi Booksc[2017]  a512 pages :billustrations (color and black and white) ;c32 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  astill imagebsti2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aArtibus Asiae. Supplementum ;v52  a"Museum Rietberg Zurich in collaboration with the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh."  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 509-511).8 aThis work centers upon Manaku of Guler, older brother of the greatly celebrated Nainsukh, reconstructing whatever little is known of his life, but following closely his artistic journey; Manaku came from an obscure little town in the hills of northern India home to his singularly talented family, and yet his vision knew almost no limits; Endowed with soaring imagination and great painterly skills, this man with a name that literally means a ruby, that stone of fame and mystique, whose glow keeps hinting at an inner fire was capable of painting giant rings of time upon timeless waters, envisioning the world of gods and demons, littered with cosmic battles and earthly triumphs, but also gazing, with tender eyes, upon the world of two lovers in which there is tortured loneliness at one moment but, in the next, her garlands fall on his chest and glisten like white cranes on a dark cloud; At least three great series were painted by Manaku: The Siege of Lanka which took forward the narrative of the Ramayana from the point where his father, the gifted Pandit Seu, had left it; The Gita Govinda Jayadeva's immortal 12th century Sanskrit lyric, which he completed in 1730; And the Bhagavata Purana, that remarkably extensive text, revered and recited by millions to this day, which he set about to negotiate with his brush in ca. 1740-45; every single folio that has survived and is at present accessible the number comes close to five hundred from these series finds a place in this uncommonly rich volume; for the second time -- Nainsukh of Guler was the first -- Professor Goswamy looks here at the entire body of work of a great Indian artist from the past through eyes filled with curiosity and warmth.00aManaku,dapproximately 1700-approximately 1760.9232 0aPainterszIndiaxHistoryy18th centuryvBiography.9189 0aGuler painting.919102aManaku,dapproximately 1700-approximately 1760.tPaintings.kSelections.92332 aMuseum Rietberg,eissuing body.92342 aGovernment Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh,eissuing body.9169  a7bcbcccopycatd3encipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBKh759.954 G699M