The
romance of red stone : an appreciation of ornament on Islamic architecture in
India / text by Mustansir Dalvi ; Yashwant Pitkar.
Super Book
House, Mumbai, India : 2010.
255 p. : principalmente il.
ISBN 9788190080941
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.033.3 ROM
"The romance in Red Stone" is an appreciation of architecture of Islam in
India at a level removed from the formal, as articulated surface. In his
photographs Yashwant Pitkar presents architecture as a feast of
craftsmanship, as an enduring romance with shape and stone, in its
unending variations. An architect first, then a photographer, Pitkar's
images reflect his love and admiration for the buildings of Delhi, Agra
and Fatehpur Sikri, which he captures in a way he knows best, up close
and personal.Pitkar's unique photographic gaze identifies with that of a
Mughal miniature painter, or a Company artist, taking the viewer close
to the buildings, enough to shut out the dominating forms right into the
aesthetics of surface. For a visitor to these buildings, the
photographs allow a return, a recollection of architecture as a
phenomenon, giving a sensual experience of the visit, here is an
effective feel for the infinite craft.
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