{"product_id":"a-splendid-land-9783777439440","title":"A Splendid Land","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions, and cultural landscapes in South Asia? \u003ci\u003eA Splendid Land\u003c\/i\u003e is the first exhibition to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years, spanning from Mughal to colonial India, that have never been published or exhibited in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood (bhava) of the city's palaces, lakes, and mountains. \u003ci\u003eA Splendid Land\u003c\/i\u003e explores how painters depicted places, mapped terrains, and triggered memories to foster political and personal attachments to land. By examining social networks, ecological relations, and pleasurable pursuits, and by drawing upon previously untranslated sources and engaging with the history of the senses, \u003ci\u003eA Splendid Land\u003c\/i\u003e opens early modern art history to new interpretative possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423818301676,"sku":"9783777439440","price":140.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/91Ktl_74JaL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774431297","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-splendid-land-9783777439440","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}