Whitaker has collected African Tribal Art and Indian art, and donated both her African tribal Indian arts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.
As an artistic element, often the tree and the yakshi are subject to heavy stylization.
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One of the recurring elements in Indian art, often found at gates of Buddhist and Hindu temples, is the sculpture of a yakshini with her foot on the trunk and her hands holding the branch of a flowering ashoka tree.
Stella Kramrisch (1896-1993) was an authority on Indian art and Hindu mythology.
Outside of his medical service, he took a great interest in Indian art, publishing four books on the topic and helping found the Quarterly Journal of Indian Art.
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Books on several subjects including Dance, Drama, Music, Theatre, Sociology, Folklore, Tribal Studies, Indian History and Culture, Indian Art, Religion and Epics, Mythology, Anthropology and Reference works such as Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Yearbooks, Bibliographies, Indexes and Newspaper clippings about Academy Awards and eminent artistes in the field of performing arts, can be found here.
The two-armed representations are more common in Tibetan art and Indian art, while six-armed representations are almost exclusive to Nepalese art.
Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India.
The grand sculpture of Ravana attempting to lift Mount Kailasa, the abode of Lord Shiva, with his full might is a landmark in Indian art.
A Ramachandran: A Retrospective (2004), is a two-volume book by Indian art historian R. Siva Kumar.
In Gujarat, Kalaguru Raval made great efforts in the same direction and brought about the renaissance of Indian art.
Swastik Rangoli Kalakar Group is a Vadodara (Gujarat) based group formed in 1985 by rangoli enthusiasts who decided to work collectively and promote this almost forgotten traditional Indian art.
Among his most noted later paintings were his triptych Celebration, which when sold for Rs 1.5 crore ($317,500) at a Christie’s auction in 2002, was not only the highest sum for an Indian painting at an international auction, but also triggered the subsequent great Indian art boom; his other noted works were the 'Diagonal Series', Santiniketan triptych series, Kali, Mahishasura (1996).
Nitin Chandrakant Desai, is a noted Indian art director and production designer of Indian cinema turned film and television producer