During the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries, flourished in North India, in the city of Lucknow, a composite company, both Indian and European extraordinarily diverse and sophisticated. A royal court in India: Lucknow (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries) is the first major international exhibition devoted to the cosmopolitan culture that flourished at the court of Lucknow and the fine art and artists in which residents of this multiethnic city gave birth.
This book of photographs echoed in the exhibition "Art and Culture in Lucknow (from the LACMA museum in Los Angeles) to be presented at the Guimet Museum in Paris, which will consist of a vast and rich iconography of photos of the nineteenth century .
The series of images in this exhibition inspired Antonio Martinelli proposing a parallel exhibition at Lucknow original mirror of the time a photographic inventory of the current city by producing a collection of contemporary photographs in black and white.
This book of photographs echoed in the exhibition "Art and Culture in Lucknow (from the LACMA museum in Los Angeles) to be presented at the Guimet Museum in Paris, which will consist of a vast and rich iconography of photos of the nineteenth century .
The series of images in this exhibition inspired Antonio Martinelli proposing a parallel exhibition at Lucknow original mirror of the time a photographic inventory of the current city by producing a collection of contemporary photographs in black and white.
Antonio Martinelli lives in Paris, born in Venice. He graduated at the Institute of Architecture in Venice in 1979 with a thesis on India. It publishes books and numerous reports on this country. He worked at Touring Club Italiano and the Japanese magazine A + U and published books on geographical and architectural subjects. In 2005, states: Passages in India. Yesterday and Today (Paris, the Conciergerie) and Passaggi in India. Ieri and Oggi (Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale).
Amina Taha Hussein-Okada
Auteur
Amina Taha Hussien – Okada est conservatrice en chef au musée des Arts asiatiques – Guimet, où elle est en charge des collections d’art indien. Commissaire de plusieurs expositions artistiques – A la Cour du Grand Moghol (Bibliothèque Nationale, 1986), Miniatures de l’Inde impériale : les peintres de la cour d’Akbar ( Musée Guimet, 1989), Bronzes bouddhiques et hindous de l’antique Ceylan (Musée Guimet, 1991), L’Inde de Gustave Moreau (Musée Cernuschi, 1997), L’Âge d’or de l’Inde classique, l’Empire des Gupta (Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2007).
Elle est également l’auteure de nombreux ouvrages portant sur l’art et la civilisation de l’Inde : Ajantâ (Imprimerie Nationale, 1991), L’Inde du XIXème siècle, Voyage aux sources de l’imaginaire (Agep,1991), Le Grand Moghol et ses peintres, Miniaturistes de l’Inde aux XVIème et XVIIème siècle (Flammarion,1992), Tâj Mahal (Imprimerie Nationale,1993), Un joyau de l’Inde moghole, le mausolée d’I’timâd ud-Daulah (5 Continents Editions, 2003), L’âge d’or de l’Inde classique (Découvertes Gallimard, 2007), Voyage au Cachemire de François Bernier (Carnets des Tropiques, 2009). Elle a en outre publié des traductions en français de grands classiques de la littérature sanskrite, tels les Contes du perroquet (Shukasaptati) et les Poèmes d’un voleur d’amour (Chaurapanchâshikâ).