Re: Ajanta website??
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on November 14, 1999 at 16:32:28:
In Reply to: Ajanta website?? posted by karin on November 14, 1999 at 06:25:23:
Behl, Benoy; "The Ajanta CAves, Artistic Wonder of Ancient Buddhist
India"
Harry Abrams, Inc, N. Y., N. Y., 1998
That's your best book on Ajanta. What is shows is that henna was used
in 4th and 5th century India, but that it was not particularly
significant, not a bridal tradition, and definitely not patterned.
This Buddhist tradition of henna in India goes till at least c 900,
and then continues in Nepal. Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma and possibly
farther to the south and east through c. 1300.
I'm going to pile on several more sources here....what they show is
that henna, sometime in the Mughal period (definitely, if it did not
do so much, much earlier due to cultural slosh with Persia) changed
over to a woman-primarilly, absorbing the bridal henna traditions that
had been established in the eastern Mediterranean since 2100 B.C. E. .
What all the artifact and literary evidence shows is that patterning
in henna was rare or non-existant until 1650 in India, and then began
to flourish after 1700, becoming a complex and florid art only in the
19th and 20th century. The peak of complex patterning in the
Middle Eastern countries was from c.1200 to 1600.
Here's where you start digging for information on the henna traditions
in India; if you want the megalist of bibliography for Middle Eastern
and Mediterannean henna useage, post again, and if you want the
timeline for artifacts and coutry list of henna useage, email me. If
you want the whole smoking bibliography for digging out henna history
back to 7000 B.C.E. in Turkey, email me (about 200 books......)
Bhanawat, Mahendra, : "Menhadi Rang Rachi, Folkloric Study of
Colourful Myrtle"
Bhartiya Lok-kala Mandal, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 1976
Bussagli, Mario and Calembus, Sivaramamurti: "5000 Years of the Art of
India"
Harry Abrams Inc. New York
Bussagli, Mario and Calembus, Sivaramamurti: "5000 Years of the Art of
India"
Harry Abrams Inc. New York
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., "Medieval Sinhalese Art"
Pantheon Books, 1956, N.Y., N. Y.
Dehejia, Vidya: "Indian Art"
Phaidon,
Ehnbom, Daniel: "Indian Miniatures, The Ehrenfeld Collections"
Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1985
Khandalavala, Karl and Doshi, Saryu: "A Collector's Dream, Indian Art
in the Collections of Basant Kumar and Saraladevi Birla"
Marg Publications, Bombay, 1987
Meer Hassan Ali, Mrs. : "Observations on the Mussulmauns of India"
Oxford University Press, 1917
Miller, Barbaral Stoler and Mildred Archer; "Songs for the Bride,
Wedding Rites of Rural India"
Columbia University Press, New York, N.Y., 1985
Mode, Heinz ; "The Woman in Indian Art"
The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. 1970
Okada, Amina: "Indian Miniatures of the Mughal Court, 16th - 19th
centuries"
Harry Abrams, Inc., New York,
Pal, Pratapadetya, "Art of Nepal, Los Angeles Couunty Art Collection"
Los Angeles County Museum and Associates, 1985
Pratadaditya Pal, "Court Painting of India, 16th-19th Centuries"
Navin Kumar, New York and New Delhi, 1983
Saksena, Jogendra, : "Art of Rajasthan, Henna and Floor Decorations"
Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi, India, 1979
Singer and Denwood, "Tibetan Art"
Lawrence King Publishing, London,
Swarup, Shanti; "The Arts and Crafts of India and Pakistan"
Taraporevala Sons and Co., Private Ltd., Bombay, India, 1957
Welch, Stuart, "Indian Art and Culture"
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Ahmedabad, 1985
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