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