Exploring India's Sacred Art
Author | : Stella Kramrisch |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1994-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788120812086 |
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Author | : Stella Kramrisch |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1994-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788120812086 |
Author | : Stella Kramrisch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Art historians |
ISBN | : 9780812278651 |
Author | : Barbora Stoller Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788120812086 |
Exploring India's Sacred Art presents a selection of Stella Kramrisch's influential essays, along with a biographical essay. The writings collected here emphasize the cultural and symbolic values of Indian art. The first section discusses the social and religious contexts of art. This is followed by essays on various forms of ritual art. The section entitled The Subtle Body is derived from her term for the form that underlies concrete shapes; it includes studies of literary and visual symbolism. Further essays concentrate on formal and technical aspects of temple structure and painting in the context of their symbolic meaning. Over 150 illustrations, many of them prepared especially for this volume, provide a vital visual dimension to her writings. Also included is Joseph Dye's comprehensive bibliography of her works. Exploring India's Sacred Art testifies to the life and work of one of this century's greatest art scholars and provides an unparalleled source of insight into Indian art and culture.
Author | : Doris Meth Srinivasan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 1997-09-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004644970 |
One of the first things that strike the Western viewer of Indian art is the multiplicity of heads, arms and eyes. This convention grows out of imagery conceived by Vedic sages to explain creation. This book for the first time investigates into the meaning of this convention. The author concentrates on its origins in Hindu art and on preceding textual references to the phenomenon of multiplicity. The first part establishes a general definition for the convention. Examination of all Brahmanical literature up to, and sometimes beyond, the 1st - 3rd century A.D., adds more information to this basic definition. The second part applies this literary information mainly to icons of the Yaksa, Śiva, Vāsudeva-Kṛsṇa and the Goddess, and indicates how Brahmanical cultural norms, exemplified in Mathurā, can transmit textual symbols. Both Part I and Part II provide iconic modules and a methodology to generate interpretations for icons with this remarkable feature through the Gupta age.
Author | : Upinder Singh |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788131716779 |
A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.
Author | : Walter Smith |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788120807938 |
Author | : Om Datt Upadhya |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Ajanta (India) |
ISBN | : 9788120809901 |
Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of Ksaya-Vrddhi --diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter`s emphasis only on the rhythm of augmentation), has been delineated in this study with examples from the world`s two of the best art-monuments: Ajanta (India), now not remaining unknown even to the most casual connoisseur, and Sopocani (Yugoslavia), the most significant and monumentally beautiful work of Byzantine art. Tracing Prana-aesthetics as the aesthetics of inner-light coded in the creeper-motif by the artists of Ajanta, this work emphasises decoding of the creeper-motif by Byzantine artists culminating into the frescoes of Sopocani done in Hellenistic-Byzantine aesthetics beatifield by Hesycast meditation to which that of Buddhists was not unknown. Comparisons of various determinant aspects, aesthetics and artistic denominators, and constraints not allowing similar consummation are properly investigated to substantiate the thesis that Prana-aesthetics transfigures at Ajanta but transubstantiates at Sopocani. The significance of the anabolic aspects of this aesthetics is highlighted especially as a way out from the reductivistic tendencies of the present day visual-arts straining them upto the stage of catabolic dissolution.
Author | : Stella Kramrisch |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Hindu temples |
ISBN | : 9788120802247 |
Author | : Heather Elgood |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2000-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0304707392 |
The roots between the Hindu religion and the wider culture are deep and uniquely complex. No study of either ancient or contemporary Indian culture can be undertaken without a clear understanding of Hindu visual arts and their sources in religious belief and practice. Defining what is meant by religion - no such term exists in Sanskrit - and what is understood by Hindu ideals of beauty, Heather Elgood provides the best synthesis and critical study of recent scholarship on the topic. In addition, this book offers critical background information for anyone interested in the social and anthropological roots of artistic creativity, as well as the rites, practices and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of Hindus in the world today.
Author | : D. Venkat Rao |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000422372 |
This volume critically engages with the question of cultural difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation, philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit language (through Telugu resources) to argue that categories like prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, kala,etc. cannot be conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste, religion, (sanctioned) action, literature and art respectively. The book questions and unravels the efficacy of European concepts, theories and interpretive frames in understanding Indian reflective traditions and cultural forms. It also lays the groundwork for reorienting teaching and research in universities in the humanities on the basis of key cultural differences. By focusing on major themes in the humanities discourse and their limitations, the work engages with the writings of Heidegger, Derrida and Agamben, among others, from radically new vantage points of Sanskrit-Indian reflective traditions, and challenges prevailing ideas about Indian art, literature and culture. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian languages and literature, comparative literature, art and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, cultural and heritage studies, philosophy, political philosophy, comparative philosophy, Sanskrit studies, India studies, South Asian studies, Global South studies, and for those working on education in the humanities/human sciences.