Pratapaditya Pal
Autore di The sensuous immortals: A selection of sculptures from the Pan-Asian collection
Sull'Autore
Pratapaditya Pal is Fellow for Research at the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California and General Editor of Marg Publications in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
Fonte dell'immagine: Dr. Pratapaditya Pal. Distinguished scholar of South Asian and Himalayan Art. Image from South Asian Studies Association.
Serie
Opere di Pratapaditya Pal
Art of Tibet : a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection (1983) — Autore — 41 copie
Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet : In the John and Berthe Ford Collection (2001) — Autore — 25 copie
Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Volume 3: Art from Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia (2004) 15 copie
The joy of collecting : Far Eastern art from the Lidow Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 13,… (1979) — Prefazione — 14 copie
The classical tradition in Rajput painting : from the Paul F. Walter Collection (1978) — Autore — 14 copie
Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum: Volume 2: Art from the Himalayas and China (Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum… (2003) 13 copie
The Holy Cow and Other Animals: A Selection of Indian Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago (2002) 10 copie
Pleasure gardens of the mind : Indian paintings from the Jane Greenough Green Collection (1993) 10 copie
Puja and Piety: Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Art from the Indian Subcontinent (2016) — Editor and Author — 10 copie
Krishna: The Cowherd King (Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Monograph series, no. 1) (1972) 10 copie
The divine presence: Asian sculptures from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lenart (1978) 8 copie
Icons of piety, images of whimsy : Asian terra-cottas from the Walter-Grounds Collection (1985) 8 copie
Aspects of Indian Art: Papers Presented in a Symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October, 1970 (1972) — A cura di — 7 copie
Norton Simon Museum: North Indian Buddhist Art - North Indian Hindu Sculpture - South Indian Art - Himalayan Art -… (1988) 5 copie
A Centennial Bouquet : The Khandalavala Collection of Indian art in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (2004) — Autore — 4 copie
The Elegant Image: Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection (2011) 4 copie
The Flute and the Brush: Indian Paintings from the William Theo Brown and Paul Wonner Collection (1976) 3 copie
Idoles du Népal et du Tibet: Arts de l'Himalaya : [exposition] les musées de la Ville de Paris,… (1996) — Autore — 2 copie
Boston Museum of Fine Arts 1 copia
E. O. Hoppé's Bombay: Photographs from 1929. — Autore — 1 copia
Marg, Vol. 47 No. 2 1 copia
The Sacred and the Secular in Indian Art: Selected from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1 copia
Norton Simon Museum 1 copia
The ¤astral divinities of Nepal 1 copia
Opere correlate
Mystics and mandalas: Bronzes and paintings of Tibet and Nepal (1974) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 4 copie
The sensuous line : Indian drawings from the Paul F. Walter Collection (1976) — alcune edizioni — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1935
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Bangladesh (birth)
USA - Luogo di residenza
- Bangladesh (birth)
Calcutta, India - Istruzione
- University of Calcutta (PhD | Fine Arts and History)
- Attività lavorative
- art historian
curator - Organizzazioni
- Los Angeles Museum of Art
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Padmashree (2010)
SASA Academic Excellence Award (2008)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 88
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 977
- Popolarità
- #26,370
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 103
- Lingue
- 1
I confess it’s hard to keep track of all the deities and their relations to one another, though Pratapaditya Pal does a pretty good job explaining it in an introduction and in the notes on each piece, and he does so in a way that both a scholar and a novice will get something out of it. One of the recurring themes is tolerance; there is a fusion of Nepalese, Indian, and Tibetan cultures here, with various beliefs coexisting peacefully. Another is playfulness and youth; the Gods dance and in one of the descriptions of Vishnu, “the devotee is constantly reminded of the god’s radiance, bright as the sun’s rays or a thousand moons; of his smooth complexion, like a water-laden cloud or the dark autumn cloud; or of his serene appearance, as fresh as the morning dew.” Only when facing evil to the gods become angry, and as Pal says, “in the divine drama, death overtakes only the evildoers, while the gods and goddesses, personifying good, remain ‘immortal adolescents.’” Lastly, there is also an acknowledgment of the sensual, with physical desire and spiritual grace going hand in hand on one’s quest for enlightenment. It’s quite refreshing, and beautiful.… (altro)