Indian Art and Connoisseurship : Essays in Honour of Douglas Barrett

A collection of twenty-five essays by international scholars written to celebrate the contribution to the study of Indian art of Douglas Barrett, former keeper of Indian art at the British Museum. The essays are organized in five Part 1: Early India; Part 2: North Indian sculpture; Part 3: South Indian sculpture; Part 4: Indian painting; Part 5: Islamic art. All papers are richly illustrated, some in colour. A full bibliography of Douglas Barrett's writings on lndian art is included. The contributors T. K Biswas, Vidya Dehejia, Simon Digby, Klaus Fischer, Basil Gray, John Guy, J. C. Harle, Herbert Hartel,John Irwin, Karl Khandalavala, J. P. Losty, T. S. Maxwell, R. Nagaswamy, Pratapaditya Pal, R. Pinder-Wilson, H. K Swali, Robert Skelton, M. Taddei, Andrew Topsfield, S.C. Welch and Joanna Williams