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Article: Bagta and Chokha: Master artists at Devgarh.(Book review)
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- Marg, A Magazine of the Arts
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- June 1, 2008
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Bagta and Chokha: Master artists at Devgarh, by Milo Cleveland Beach and Rawat Nahar Singh II. Artibus Asiae Supplementum XLVI, Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 2005. 136 pages, 134 colour plates, many monochrome figures.
Kingdom of the Sun: Indian court and village art from the princely state of Mewar, by Joanna Williams. San Francisco. Asian Art Museum, 2007. 240 pages, many colour plates.
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It is well known that during the half-century from c. 1770 to 1820 many of the most inventive and expressive paintings produced in the Mewar kingdom--or in Rajasthan as a whole--were the work of a family of artists based principally at ...