Moonlight Serenade, Oil on Canvas, 102 x 168 cmStellar Position in the Universe, 2013, Jain Art Studio, Mixed Media on Silk, 76 x 53 cm

Kali, 1993, G. R. Santosh, Delhi Art Gallery, Oil on Canvas 115 x 99 cmHiranyakashipu Attacks Narasimhadeva, Ramadasa Abhirama Deva, Oil on Canvas 170 x 130 cm

Ardhanarishvara – Radha Krishna, 2011, Shuvaprasanna, Oil, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas, 125 x 100 cm Rama’s Coronation, Digital Print 90 x 70 cm Ravana fights Jatayu, Digital Print, 90 x 70 cm

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858 photographs, all colour. Hard bound with dust jacket

Forms of Devotion documents a substantive collection of Indian art in the spiritual genre and held in the Museum of Sacred Heart. The publication explores an inclusive spectrum of contemporary Indian creativity – classical inspired, tribal, folk and popular arts, reflective of the rootedness and innovation

within traditions, as well as new media work in varied manifestations and genres. It features several especially commissioned works and seminal essays by Indian and international experts framed within the context of the history, philosophy and ideology of the culture, the art stems from. The double volume book reflects the diversity and depth of Indian art from varied perspectives and aesthetics. It examines the connection between art and various spiritual ideologies and living traditions as they continue to be practiced and celebrated or questioned by hundreds of artists, from around and beyond the country, in a multifaith context.

The artists’ biographical sketches and their photographs, the bibliography and other reference material, make it a collectors’ delight and a useful stand alone resource book, first of its kind, on spiritual and devotional Indian art with its multilayered philosophical, mystical and cultural resonance. The book brings forth fresh insights on a subject of universal interest.

• Richly Illustrated two volume set which includes essays on Indian Art by eminent scholars

• An authoritative and seminal statement on India’s Sacred Art

• A collectors’ delight and a useful stand-alone resource book with artists’ biographical sketches and their photographs, the bibliography and other reference material

• The book brings forth fresh insights on subject of universal interest

by Sushma K. Bahl

AUTHORS

Martin Gurvich, director of the Museum of Sacred Art (Belgium, Italy) and the Gurvich Museum (Uruguay), is an avid art collector and connoisseur. Martin’s passion for art seems natural given his lineage as the son of renowned

artist José Gurvich (1927-1974), who left behind an impressive art repertoire. Martin has published the book Living Traditions in Indian Art and several catalogues documenting the work by the artists in MOSA collection. He is also a member of ISKCON, Hindu Forum (Europe) and URI, a global interfaith organization.

Sushma K. Bahl, MBE, is the author of 5000 Years of Indian Art and former head of Arts & Culture for the British Council India. She is also an independent arts adviser, writer and curator and organizes festivals and cultural

projects internationally. Sushma was involved with the Triennale-India (guest director), Bharat Rang Mahotsav (project consultant), Asian Art Biennale-Bangladesh (jury member) and ASEAN-India artists’ residency & exhibition (curator). The art exhibition Ways of Seeing she curated won the IHC Art India Award.

Dr. George Michell trained as an architect in Melbourne and studied Indian art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. For more than 30 years he has worked on many

research projects in India, most notably documenting the ruins of Hampi, Vijayanagara. Among his most recent publications are Mughal Architecture and Gardens, Southern India: A Guide to Monuments, Sites and Museums and Temple Architecture and Art of the Early Chalukyas.

Dr. Kenneth R. Valpey is Dean of Studies at Bhaktivedanta College (Belgium) and a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (UK). He teaches theology and practices of iconology in South Asian

religious traditions at the University of Florida and Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Valpey authored Attending Krishna’s Image: Caitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth. He is involved with translating the abridged English version of the Bhagavata Purana for Columbia University Press. He is a member of ISKCON in the Sanyasi order.

Jaya Jaitly is the founder of Dastkari Haat Samiti, a national association for crafts and she is credited with innovating the Dilli Haat market place in Delhi. She is the former national president of the Samata Party and

continues to engage in socio-political issues. Jaya has also authored many books including Vishwakarma’s Children, Craft Traditions of India, Crafts Atlas of India and Crafting Indian Scripts and written stories for children as well as vast documentation and artistic maps of the arts, crafts and textiles of India.

Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik is a self-taught mythologist based in Mumbai. He worked in healthcare as a medical doctor for 15 years before turning to his full time passion in writing. He has authored 25 books and 400 articles on

the relevance of mythology in modern times. He consults for Star TV and Epic TV and is advisor to the shows’ Devon ke Dev Mahadev and Mahabharata. He is speaker on TED and TV shows Shaastrath and Business Sutra and his views on leadership, management and governance have made him a popular speaker at corporate events and business schools.

Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa) is a biographer, scholar and author in the fields of philosophy, religion, spirituality and music. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies and associate editor of Back to Godhead magazine.

He has authored thirty-one books that have been published in numerous languages. Some popular titles include Essential Hinduism, TheYoga of Kirtan: Conversations on the Sacred Art of Chanting, and Krishna’s Other Song:A New Look at the Uddhava Gita.

Dr. Madhu Khanna is a professor of Indic Religions, scholar of Hindu Tantra and Chairperson of Tantra Foundation. She is a Bina and Haridas Choudhury Distinguished Fellow in Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute

of Integral Studies. She was Director, of the Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia University where she teaches courses in Hinduism, Cross-cultural Studies, Religion–Gender, and Religion– Ecology. Dr. Khanna has also co-authored Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity and The Tantric Way – Art, Science & Ritual and edited several books including Sktapramodah of Deva Nandan Singh.

Professor Mushirul Hasan is a Padma Shri Awardee and Cambridge graduate. He was formerly Director General, National Archives of India, Vice-Chancellor and earlier Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University,

New Delhi. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and North America. He was awarded Officer dansl’Orle the Palmes Academique, the highest French civilian award. He has authored several books on subjects such as India’s partition and India’s contemporary history, the plurality and syncretism of Indian social life, and the multiple Islamic traditions in South Asia. His most recent publication is Faith and Freedom: Gandhi in History.

Dr. Annapurna Garimella studied art history at Columbia University and is based in Bangalore and Delhi. She heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organization that takes on curatorial and publication projects for artists,

museums, government and private institutions and NGOs. She has edited and written several books and has contributed to Indian and international journals.

Dr. Desmond Lazaro is a British-born painter and writer currently based in Pondicherry. He learnt miniature painting in Jaipur for his Master’s degree and for his PhD thesis he studied and wrote on Pichhvai painting, which

was published by Mapin under the title Methods, Materials and Symbolism in the Pichhvai Painting Tradition of Rajasthan. Dr. Lazaro has been researching on traditional Indian painting techniques and materials. He lectures internationally on this subject. Some of the countries where his artwork has been exhibited include India, UK and Germany.

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