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The body adorned : dissolving boundaries between sacred and profane in India's art / Vidya Dehejia.
Fine Arts Library NX650.H74 D45 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dehejia, Vidya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human figure in art.
- Human body in literature.
- Beauty, Personal, in art.
- Beauty, Personal, in literature.
- Arts, Indic.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgments
- The body as leitmotif
- The idealized body and ornament
- The sensuous within sacred boundaries
- To the divine through beauty
- Inserting the gods in the world of men : Rajput painted manuscripts
- Afterword: The body revealed and concealed : issues of intention and perception
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231140287
- 0231140282
- 9780231512664
- 023151266X
- OCLC:
- 226360260
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