Desire and devotion : art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford collection

Desire and devotion : art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford collection /

"The collection of John and Berthe Ford represents one of the most important private holdings of Indian and Himalayan art in the world. Certain objects have been widely exhibited; others have never been publicly shown. The exhibition and the accompanying publication bring together works from bo...

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Author / Contributor: Pal, Pratapaditya
Corporate Authors: Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Albuquerque Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.)
Other authors / contributors: Woodward, Hiram W.
Imprint: Baltimore, Md. : London : Walters Art Museum ; Philip Wilson, 2001.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Ford, John Gilmore, > 1928- > Art collections.
Ford, Berthe > Art collections.
Art, Indic.
Art, Nepali.
Art, Tibetan.
Ford, Berthe.
Ford, John Gilmore, > 1928-
Art > Private collections.
Exhibition catalogues.
Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / John and Berthe Ford
  • Foreword / Gary Vikan
  • Acknowledgements / Pratapaditya Pal
  • Introduction: desire and devotion / Pratapaditya Pal
  • Artistic production, religious practice: material and ideological constraints / Hiram Woodward
  • The catalogue.

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