Sikh Art and Literature

Name: Sikh Art and Literature
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ISBN: 9780415202893

ISBN-10: 0415202892

ISBN-13: 9780415202893

Edition: 1999

Authors: Kerry Brown

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Sikh Art and Literature traverses the 500-year history of a religion that dawned with the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas and religions and arts of the East and West.Essays by art curators, historians and collectors and religion and literary scholars are illustrated with some of the earliest and finest Sikh paintings. Sikh modernism and mysticism is explored in essays on the holy Guru Granth Sahib; the translations and writings of the British Raj convert, M.A. Macauliffe; the fathers of modern Punjabi literature, Bhai Vir Singh and Puran Singh; and the 20th century fiction writers Bhai Mohan Vaid Singh and Khushwant Singh. Excerpts from journals of…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.69" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Colour Plates and Illustrations Art Foreword


Literature


Foreword


Acknowledgements


Introduction Narinder




From Gurus to Kings: Early and Court Painting




An Illustrated Life: Guru Nanak in Narrative Art




The Sikh Treasury: The Sikh Kingdom and the British Raj




Golden Temple, Marble Forum: Form and Meaning in Sacred Architecture



Literature



The Unstruck Melody: Mystical Mysticism in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Gobind Singh Mansukhani



The Western Gateway to Sikhism: The Life and Works of




Poetry Urges Poetry: From the Guru Granth to




Critical Ecstacy: The Modern Poetry of Puran Singh




Old Culture, New Knowledge: The Writings of Bhai Mohan Singh Vaid


Ardaman Singh & Nirvikar Singh



A Mirror to Our Faces: The Short Stories of Khushwant



Appendices



The Ten Sikh Gurus



The Contributors to




The Structure of




Custodians of Sikh Art Recommended


Reading Glossary