Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1984 - 6/30/1986

Funding Totals

$200,000.00 (approved)
$200,000.00 (awarded)


The Pursuit of Power and Pleasure: Secular Traditions in Indian Painting

FAIN: GM-22045-84

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA 02115-5523)
Vishakha N. Desai (Project Director: November 1983 to October 1990)

To support implementation of a major temporary exhibition which will examine the concept of "realistic representation" as expressed in secular Indian painting. The exhibition will trace the evolution and development of this themefrom the 16th to the 19th century.