KamZour Journal · Topic
Love & Relationships
How Indian art and literature have pictured love, longing and togetherness, from temple stone to painted page.
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Is the Kama Sutra the Most Misunderstood Text of All Time?
The world knows it as an ancient sex manual. It is really a third-century guide to the art of living: to pleasure, the arts, courtship and marriage. Here is what Vatsyayana actually wrote, and how one Victorian translation changed the way the world reads it.
Love & Relationships
Love in Indian Art: A History from Temple Stone to Painted Page
For more than two thousand years, Indian artists treated love as one of life’s great subjects. Here is how it appears on gateways and temple walls, in cave murals, miniature paintings and village wedding rooms, and how to look at it today.
Love & Relationships
The Eight Heroines: Ashta Nayika in Indian Painting and Dance
Waiting, longing, quarrelling, setting out through a storm: classical India described eight states of a heroine in love, and for centuries poets, painters and dancers gave each one a face.
Art History
Radha and Krishna in the Hills: The Painters of Kangra
In the small hill kingdoms of the western Himalaya, one family of painters and their descendants made some of the most tender pictures of love in Indian art. Here is who they were, how they worked, and how to look at their paintings today.