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Feet & footwear in Indian culture / Jutta Jain-Neubauer.
LIBRA GT2130 .J25 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jain-Neubauer, Jutta.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Footwear--India--History.
- Footwear.
- Foot--Social aspects--India.
- Foot.
- Foot--Social aspects.
- History.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 171 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Feet and footwear in Indian culture
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Canada : Bata Shoe Museum ; Ahmedabad, India : In association with Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ; Wappingers' Falls, N.Y. : Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 2000.
- Summary:
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, this book illustrates the religious and erotic significance of feet and footwear in Indian art and culture. It also brings into focus the traditional footwear, collected over the past decades, signifying its richness and diversity. There are outstanding examples of aristocratic embroidered slippers, typical toe-knob sandals made of wood, ivory, brass and silver worn by mendicants and holy men as well as felt, jute, wool and leather shoes worn by the common people.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0921638132
- 1890206202
- 8185822697
- OCLC:
- 45052368
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