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Author: Balasubrahmanyam Venkataraman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture, Chola Languages : en Pages : 240
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Study of the contributions of the queens of a medieval South Indian dynasty to the development of temple architecture, art, and sculpture.
Author: Balasubrahmanyam Venkataraman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture, Chola Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Study of the contributions of the queens of a medieval South Indian dynasty to the development of temple architecture, art, and sculpture.
Author: Vidya Dehejia Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231515245 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 176
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The rule of the Chola dynasty in South India between the ninth and thirteenth centuries was a period of unparalleled creativity in Indian art. Known as the Golden Age of Tamil Culture, the Chola period produced dynamic royal personalities who shaped the artistic activity of theirtimes. Art of the Imperial Cholas examines the dynasty's architectural and sculptural achievements, which stand among the masterpieces of India.
Author: Karen Pechilis Prentiss Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195351908 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 278
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This book offers an interpretive history of bhakti, an influential religious perspective in Hinduism. Prentiss argues that although bhakti is mentioned in every contemporary sourcebook on Indian religions, it still lacks an agreed-upon definition. "Devotion" is found to be the most commonly used synonym. Prentiss seeks a new perspective on this elusive concept. Her analysis of Tamil (south Indian) materials leads her to suggest that bhakti be understood as a doctrine of embodiment. Bhakti, she says, urges people towards active engagement in the worship of God. She proposes that the term "devotion" be replaced by "participation," emphasizing bhakti's call for engagement in worship and the necessity of embodiment to fulfill that obligation.
Author: Karen Pechilis Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195128133 Category : Bakhti in literature Languages : en Pages : 278
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In this interpretive history of bhakti, both chronicle and comparison are used to identify and analyze bhakti as understood by various Tamil Siva-bhakti authors and authorities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Mary Storm Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317325567 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
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An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
Author: Cathy Turner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000594394 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 254
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This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes on their cultural economy, and the environmental impacts of performance itself. This project also considers how performance responds to its context, and the potential for performance to be critical of the city’s development, and of its own compromises. Bringing together perspectives from the humanities, natural and social sciences, the book takes a multi-faceted analytical view of live performance, connecting contemporary with heritage forms, and human with more-than-human actors. The three sections, themed around heritage, everyday life, and future ecologies, will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, heritage studies, ecology and art history.
Author: Vincent Lefèvre Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004207368 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 289
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In the study of Indian art prior to the Mughal period, portraiture has so far been much neglected, when its existence has not simply been denied. This book is an attempt to reassess this issue, by showing that portraits have existed in great number in early India, since probably the first artistic achievements. Through a close scrutiny of sculpted and (more rarely) painted images brought together with textual and epigraphical references, it aims at highlighting the specificities of Indian portraiture, its relationship with divine images and, consequently, at understanding the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious implications related to this issue.
Author: Balasubrahmanyam Venkataraman
Author: Balasubrahmanyam Venkataraman
Author: Vidya Dehejia
Author: S. R. Balasubrahmanyam
Author: Karen Pechilis Prentiss
Author: Balasubrahmanyam Venkataraman
Author: Karen Pechilis
Author: C. Sivaramamurti
Author: Mary Storm
Author: Cathy Turner
Author: Vincent Lefèvre