Art and history : texts, contexts and visual representations in ancient and early medieval India / edited by R. Mahalakshmi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahalakshmi, R., editor, author of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Indic--History.

Art, Indic.

Religious art--India.

Religious art.

History.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xlvi, 352 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Bloomsbury India, 2020.

Summary:

"Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India seeks to locate the historical contexts of premodern Indian art traditions. The volume examines significant questions, such as: What were the purposes served by art? How were religious and political ideas and philosophies conveyed through visual representations? How central were prescription, technique and style to the production of art? Who were the makers and patrons of art? How and why do certain art forms, meanings and symbols retain a relevance across context? With contributions from historians and art historians seeking to unravel the interface between art and history, the volume dwells on the significance of visual representations in specific regional historical contexts, the range of symbolic signification attached to these and the mythologies and textual prescriptions that contribute to the codification and use of representational forms." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Visual representations as historical source in ancient and early medieval India: an introduction / R. Mahalakshmi

Visualising power: sacred and temporal

Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: forms, meanings and symbols

Religious traditions, visual representations and regional contexts

Social imaginaries and the ocular

Prescriptions and representations.

Visualising power: sacred and temporal. Power of image and image of power in the Indo-Iranian borderlands: case studies of Bactrian Greeks and the Indo-Greeks / Suchandra Ghosh

The Abhiraka coin: search for a new identity / Dev Kumar Jhanjh

Emblems of faith, monuments of authority: Brahmanical iconography in the temples of the Calukyas of Badami / Niharika K. Sankrityayan

Controlling the waters: divine imagery and royal enterprise in early medieval Tamil Nadu / R. Mahalakshmi

Conceptualising the divine feminine: forms, meanings and symbols. Giving Akara to the goddess: Kali in textual and visual traditions / Sneha Ganguly

Prajñaparamita: the making of the first Buddhist goddess / Megha Yadav

Representation of sixteen Mahavidya in the Dilwara Jaina temple / Virendra Singh Bithoo

Religious traditions, visual representations and regional contexts. Icons and patterns of worship from the fringes of South India: the religious landscape of Northern Tamil Nadu / V. Selvakumar

From Viraja Tirtha to 'allegorical' Nabhi Gaya: exploring the changing religious landscape of Jajpur (sixth to fourteenth centuries CE) / Umakanta Mishra

Donors of Kurkihar images: an investigation into their socioeconomic background / Sayantani Pal

Social imaginaries and the ocular. The marriage rite of Siva-Parvati: Specimens of early medieval Indian temple art / Neha Singh

Imagery of love making: representation of the erotic body in the temples of early medieval Odisha / Sujata Rakshit

Of men, stones and stories: revisiting the virakals of South India / Malavika Binny

Prescriptions and representations. The gaṇa who consumed himself: Kirtimukha in North Indian literature and art, 400 CE-900 CE / Anisha Saxena

Buddhist theory of representation / Y.S. Alone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789388414302

9388414306

OCLC:

1107862608