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050	0	0	_aND1002 _b.S54 2017
100	1		_aSingh, Kavita.
245	1	0	_aReal birds in imagined gardens : _bMughal painting between Persia and Europe / _cKavita Singh.
260			_aLos Angeles : _bThe Getty Research Institute, _c[2017]
300			_avii, 107 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"Real Birds in Imagined Gardens publishes Kavita Singh's lecture titled Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe, held at the Getty Center on 19 November 2015"--Colophon.
520			_a"Mughal painting is said to have begun in the mid-16th century as an offshoot of Persian painting. Within a few decades, however, Mughal art was transformed by European Renaissance art. Most accounts of Mughal painting trace a straightforward "evolutionary" path, with Mughal artists abandoning the Persianate style in favor of a European one. But in her essay, Singh demonstrates that the history of Mughal painting is by no means linear. During the reigns of the emperors Akbar (1556-1605) and Jahangir (1605-27), Mughal painting underwent repeated cycles of adoption, rejection, revival of both Persian and European styles. Singh suggests that the adoption and rejection of these styles was motivated as much by aesthetic interest as by court politics. By methodically unraveling this entangled history of politics and style, Singh explores new ways of understanding the significance of naturalism and stylization in Mughal art."--Publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 97-103).
650		0	_aPainting, Mogul Empire.
650		0	_aIslamic painting _zIndia _xHistory.
650		0	_aPainting, Renaissance _zEurope _xInfluence.
710	2		_aGetty Research Institute, _eissuing body. _916945
740	0		_aLooking east, looking west.
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