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Using brush, ink, and color washes, Brechneff takes on the challenge of exploring and translating architectural and spiritual wonders of the ""lost"" kingdoms of the Himalayas: Laddakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, India, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. Brought to life through imaginative investment, Brechneff's subjects become more mysterious and exciting than ever. They sparkle with subjective life and become rapturously alive in a way that a photograph could never be. Brechneff's journey is a spiritual one; his intricate drawings form a visual diary of his travels. Additionally, each rendering is dated and its location named, indicating that the collection is documentary as well as personal. Brechneff decodes India's architecture with the hope of grasping the secret of their creative dynamic. Homage is a breathtakingly beautiful spiritual quest.

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Donald Kuspit is America's foremost art critic, poet, and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was formerly the A.D.White Professor-at- Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). He lives in Stony Brook, New York. H.H Gaj Singh II is the Maharaja of Marwar-Jodhpur in India. He succeeded to the titles and dignities of his father when only four years of age, in 1952, when his father died suddenly in a plane crash. He was enthroned shortly afterwards. At the age of eight, Gaj Singh first attended Cothill and then to Eton College. After Eton, he went on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He lives in the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India.

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