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October 18, 2005
Tryna Lyons The Artists of Nathadwara: The Practice of Painting in Rajasthan Bloomington and Ahmedabad, India: Indiana University Press in association with Mapin Publications, 2004. 360 pp.; 88 color ills.; 163 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0253344174)
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Tryna Lyons’s The Artists of Nathadwara vividly renders a community of traditional painters. It brings to life a profession that the field of South Asian art studies has tended to sidestep in its focus on objects. Early in the last century, Ananda Coomaraswamy created a vision of the artist as an anonymous yogin, meditating on internalized canons to make his imagery. It was a romantic ideal that still makes itself felt, even though a number...