Few publications have ever been attempted that bring the arts of India and Southeast Asia together in so comprehensive a manner as does The Sensuous Immortals. It is well known that many of the artistic traditions of the South and Southeast Asian countries today known as Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam were inspired by ideas emanating from India over about two millennia of political flux. As political boundaries changed and ethnic stocks mixed, the Hindu and Buddhist religions migrated outward. The complex mythologies and countless deities of the Indian religions—the "sensuous immortals"—were adopted by the other Asian peoples and embodied in a wealth of sculpture. The Sensuous Immortals provides not only a rich visual fare of examples of a great variety of Indian sculptural traditions and shapes, it also reveals how those objects shaped the aesthetic works of other South and Southeast Asian religions and peoples between 200 BC and 1600 AD. Highlighting stone and bronze pieces from a private collection, The Sensuous Immortals has 200 photographic illustrations, mostly full page, including 75 color plates. Written by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, Senior Curator of Indian and Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the sound and readable text provides basic, comprehensive catalogue information, including identification, dating, and justification, for each of the 180 objects illustrated. The general reader will find useful Dr. Pal's introduction to the historical, art historical, religious/philosophical context of the objects. The book is conveniently organized for use by the scholar and collector, with illustrations facing explanatory texts. The Sensuous Immortals grew out of a 1977-78 exhibition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, introducing to the public a vast private collection of Indian and Southeast Asian objects covering numerous areas and regions. Here is a wealth of new material, finely reproduced, with a useful text that will be of great interest to both general and specialist readers.

Sensuous Immortals

Arts & Photography

PAL, Pratapaditya

Decorative Arts & Design

MIT Press Ltd

Court Paintings of India, 16Th-19th Centuries

Univ of Washington Pr

These lavishly illustrated books are the first and second in a series of three cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Each work of art is fully illustrated and discussed, and both volumes include substantial introductions that shed light on the aesthetic and metaphysical underpinnings of these masterpieces. Volume 2 concentrates on sculptures and paintings from the Indian states of Jammu, Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh, as well as the countries of Nepal, Tibet, and China. These works date from the fifth to the twentieth century. The collection’s many highlights include Buddhist bronzes from Nepal, folk bronzes from Himachal Pradesh, and thankas and metalwork from Tibet.

Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum: Volume 1: Art from the Indian Subcontinent

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

These lavishly illustrated books are the first and second in a series of three cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. Each work of art is fully illustrated and discussed, and both volumes include substantial introductions that shed light on the aesthetic and metaphysical underpinnings of these masterpieces. Volume 1 focuses on sculptures from the Indian subcontinent, except those from the Himalayas. Representing almost all schools of Indian sculptural art and three major religions--Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism--the works span two millennia, from the second century B.C.E. to the eighteenth century C.E. The collection’s many highlights include a particularly fine assemblage of South Indian bronzes of the Chola period. Volume 2 concentrates on sculptures and paintings from the Indian states of Jammu, Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh, as well as the countries of Nepal, Tibet, and China. These works date from the fifth to the twentieth century. The collection’s many highlights include Buddhist bronzes from Nepal, folk bronzes from Himachal Pradesh, and thankas and metalwork from Tibet. Pratapaditya Pal is an internationally recognized authority on the art of South and Southeast Asia and is Fellow for Research at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California. Published in association with the Norton Simon Art Foundation

Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum: Volume 2: Art from the Himalayas and China (Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Vol. 2)

This gorgeously illustrated book completes a three-volume series cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. The volume includes approximately 180 religious artworks from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Burma and Laos, as well as Ban Chiang pottery and rain drums. Stone and metal sculptures from Cambodia and Thailand are an area of particular strength in this collection.
A substantial introduction to the volume provides pertinent information about the cultural milieu that inspired the creation of these artworks. Each object is then illustrated and discussed in detail in the catalogue section of the book.

Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Volume 3: Art from Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia (Art from Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia)

Norton Simon Distribution

A major contribution to the scholarship of South and Southeast Asian art. A major survey of South and Southeast Asian art drawn from the Alsdorf Collection, one of the finest private collections of Asian art in America. Although this extraordinary collection is well known to scholars and collectors, the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue will provide the first opportunity for the general public to view these remarkable works of art. This collection of more than 450 objects includes sculpture, jewelry, paintings, and architectural elements from India, Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Java, and elsewhere. The objects range in date from a medallion from the second century BC to twentieth-century sculpture. The catalogue has been written by the eminent scholar Pratapaditya Pal. Dr. Pal explains the major themes represented in the collection--Hindu gods, Buddhist and Jain subjects, goddesses, human figures, animals, and ritual, ornamental, and ceremonial objects--and discusses in detail the style, history, and iconography of individual pieces.

A Collecting Odyssey: The Alsdorf Collection of Indian and East Asian Art

Little, Stephen

Art Institute Of Chicago

Thames&Hudson

Art of Tibet

University of California Press

Art of Nepal: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection

Indian Sculpture: Volume I

Volume 1 of the catalogue of the collection of Indian sculpture held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Softcover: 288 pages, 36 coin entries with monochrome illustrations and 144 sculpture entries also with monochrome illustrations, 8 full page colour plates. ISBN: 0520059921 Language: English Printed in Japan Size: 11-3/4" X 8-7/8" Weight: 2lbs. 13oz. (1250g.)

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Sensuous Immortals

Court Paintings of India, 16Th-19th Centuries

Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum: Volume 1: Art from the Indian Subcontinent

Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum: Volume 2: Art from the Himalayas and China (Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Vol. 2)

Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Volume 3: Art from Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia (Art from Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia)

A Collecting Odyssey: The Alsdorf Collection of Indian and East Asian Art

Art of Tibet

Art of Nepal: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection

Indian Sculpture: Volume I

Indian Sculpture: Volume I