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Fantastic State of Ruin - The Painted Towns of Rajasthan (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,164
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Fantastic State of Ruin - The Painted Towns of Rajasthan (Hardcover): David Zurick

Fantastic State of Ruin - The Painted Towns of Rajasthan (Hardcover)

David Zurick

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This book tells the story of the painted towns of Shekhawati in rural Rajasthan, India. For centuries, the painted buildings served the towns as trading houses, pleasure palaces, temples, caravansaries, and private homes. Following independence, the descendants of the merchant families left Shekhawati for India's burgeoning cities, abandoning their opulent structures. Some were left in the charge of caretakers; squatters took up residence in many; most simply remain vacant. The buildings have slowly deteriorated over time, ravaged by climate and neglect, and now lie scattered among the desert settlements as an elegiac collection of beautiful living ruins--a crumbling open-air gallery set amid the ordinary affairs of small town life. This book portrays the fascinating ruinous beauty of the painted towns, and, along the way, provides an intimate look at life and landscape on the arid fringes of Rajasthan. This world, too, is fading, and so the book's photographs, in the end, are a visual study of both place and society at the edge of time.

General

Imprint: Oro Editions
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2018
Authors: David Zurick
Dimensions: 227 x 285 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-940743-40-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General
Books > Travel > General
LSN: 1-940743-40-0
Barcode: 9781940743400

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