Nepali Painting: Through the Ages

Contents: 1. The Chairman’s Message. 2. Foreword. 3. The publisher’s note. 4. Nepali painting: historicity of the art and the artists. 5. The plates: a visual journey.

This book primarily seeks to celebrate and reveal the historic contributions made by the Chitrakars to the tradition of paintings in Nepal from the early eleventh century to recent times.

The book also includes an essay written by noted art writer and artist Madan Chitrakar, which focuses on the historicity of the art, the artists and the tradition within which the arts flourished. It is an attempt to establish and celebrate the historicity of the Chitrakars as traditional painters. (jacket)