B. N. Goswamy
Author
B.N. Goswamy, a distinguished art historian, is Professor Emeritus
of Art History at Panjab University, Chandigarh. His work covers a wide range of
subjects, and is regarded, especially in the area of Indian painting, as having
influenced most thinking. He has been the recipient of many honours, including
the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, the Rietberg Award for Outstanding Research in
Art History, the JDR III Fellowship, the Mellon Senior Fellowship and, from the
President of India, Padma Shri (1998) and Padma Bhushan (2008). Apart from
Panjab University, Professor Goswamy has taught, as Visiting Professor, in
major universities across the world, and has been responsible for significant
exhibitions of Indian art at international venues, including Paris, San Francisco,
Zurich, New Delhi, San Diego, and New York. He is the author of over twenty-five
books on Indian art and culture, including Pahari
Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style (1968); Painters at the Sikh Court: A Study Based on Twenty Documents
(1975); A Place Apart: Paintings from
Kutch (1983); The Essence of Indian
Art (1986); Wonders of a Golden Age:
Painting at the Courts of the Great Mughals (1987); Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India (with E. Fischer, 1992);
Indian Costumes in the Calico Museum of
Textiles (1993); Nainsukh of Guler: A
great Indian Painter from a small Hill State (1997); Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting (with C.
Smith, 2005); and, more recently, The
Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 100 Great Works (2014,
2016) and Pahari Paintings: The Horst
Metzger Collection in the Museum Rietberg (with E. Fischer, 2018).