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'A thrilling and novel survey ... a wonderful primer to an unfamiliar world of art' - RA Magazine 'No one knows more about Indian painting than B.N. Goswamy and in 'The Spirit of Indian Painting' he shares a lifetime of knowledge and insights' - Glenn Lowry 'Professor Goswamy's book meets a long-felt need. In all the years I have been involved with Indian art I have repeatedly been asked to recommend a book which covers the whole subject. This is it. This is it. This is it' - Sir Howard Hodgkin 'Wonderful ... a book to make both layman and connoisseur alike realize why pre-modern Indian painting is one of the great arts of the world' - Neil MacGregor 'An out-and-out masterpiece ... will undoubtedly come to be looked on as one of the greatest books ever written on Indian art' - William Dalrymple, Guardian

Will provide 101 nights of captivating reading The text is wonderful [and] Goswamy weaves a brilliant analysis of each painting into a tale of personalities of painter and patron, time and place, and of emotional reaction evoked by thin layers of pigment. Each essay stands by itself, and the book can be opened anywhere and read with ease.

Will provide 101 nights of captivating reading... The text is wonderful [and] Goswamy weaves a brilliant analysis of each painting into a tale of personalities of painter and patron, time and place, and of emotional reaction evoked by thin layers of pigment. Each essay stands by itself, and the book can be opened anywhere and read with ease.

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B. N. Goswamy is Professor Emeritus of art history at the Panjab University and a world authority on Indian painting. He has written and lectured extensively, and been a guest curator of major exhibitions of Indian art all over the world, most recently of the path-breaking exhibition 'Masters of Indian Painting' at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, and at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Professor Goswany's many publications include Essence of Indian Art, Wonders of a Golden Age, Pahari Masters, Domains of Wonder and Nainsukh of Guler.

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