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Book Announcement:
A new book entitled "Baroque India : The Neo-Roman Religious Architecture
of South Asia: A Global Stylistic Survey" has just been published.
Profusely illustrated this book is written by Prof. Jose Pereira, Fordham
University of New York. He had earlier written the much acclaimed book
"Islamic Sacred Architecture: A Stylistic History"
Contents of the book:
Foreword/Kapila Vatsyayan. Prologue. 1. Political history. 2. Aesthetics of
Neo-Roman. 3. Architecture: evolution, styles, history and historiography.
4. Catholic Churches : types. 5. The diminuted sanctuary Church. 6.
Gilt-woodwork : retables and pulpits. 7. Crosses, shrines and Hindu
temples. 8. Protestant Churches. Epilogue. List of Illustrations.
Bibliography. Index.
From the publishers blurb: ""Baroque India is the fruit of over 40 years of
research, and is the work of one professionally trained in the history of
Indian art (Hindu, Buddhist and Jain). In addition, he is the author of a
survey of Islamic architecture world-wide, which includes, of course, the
Indo-Islamic traditions. It is his belief that Indian Baroque--or, more
correctly, Indian Neo-Roman--cannot be properly appreciated without an
understanding of the architectural styles that preceded it on the
subcontinent, and which exercised a significant impact on it
...the author has tried to outline a consistent aesthetic theory of
Neo-Roman, to portray its five major modes--Renaissance, Mannerism,
Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism--as expressions of the Neo-Roman essence,
immanently developing, in the indicated sequence, one from the other, and
pullulating a rich variety of spatial themes that both display a marked
originality and manifest a capacity for assimilating the spatial nuances of
the other architectural styles. This theory, he believes, has enabled him
to distinguish the originality of Indian Neo-Roman, and describe what it
has absorbed from the subcontinent's Indian and Indo-Islamic styles, while
integrating the absorbed material into its Neo-Roman substance."
The price of this book is US$95 (inclusive of registered airmail postage
and packing). Please e-mail [log in to unmask] if you wish to acquire
this title
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New Delhi 110 005 http://www.vedamsbooks.com
India
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