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Archaeological Survey Of India A Guide To The Sculptures In The Indian Museum Part I Early Indian Schools
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Book Synopsis The Art of Ancient India by : Susan L. Huntington
Download or read book The Art of Ancient India written by Susan L. Huntington and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author's aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: –Not since Coomaraswamyês History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness.” Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art _ from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan north to the tropical south, and from the earliest extant writing through the most modern scholarship on the subject. This dynamic survey-generously complemented with 775 illustrations, including 48 in full color and numerous architectural ground plans, and detailed maps and fine drawings, and further enhanced by its guide to Sanskrit, copious notes, extensive bibliography, and glossary of South Asian art terms-is the most comprehensive and most fully illustrated study of South Asian art available. The works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all encompassing view of the art. An outstanding portrayal of ancient Indiaês highest intellectual and technical achievements, this volume is written for many audiences: scholars, for whom it provides an up-to-date background against which to examine their own areas of study; teachers and students of college level, for whom it supplies a complete summary of and a resource for their own deeper investigations into Indic art; and curious readers, for whom it gives a broad-based introduction to this fascinating area of world art.
Download or read book Ajanta written by Sheila L. Weiner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Book Synopsis Explorations in Art and Archaeology of South Asia by : Debala Mitra
Download or read book Explorations in Art and Archaeology of South Asia written by Debala Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays.
Book Synopsis The Dynasty Arts of the Kushans by : John M. Rosenfield
Download or read book The Dynasty Arts of the Kushans written by John M. Rosenfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Borders written by Ashish Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700. The book challenges the long-held centrality of the Roman factor in the South Asian economy by locating the Indo-Sasanian interactions in long distance economic networks with trade as a central feature. It considers the role and influence of traders as an understudied group affecting the contribution of the Indian economy to the world system. Amidst rapidly changing political landscapes, traders of Indian and Sasanian origins are studied as conscious political beings, who formed ties with varieties of polities and religious communities to secure their commercial interests. In addition, their commercial interactions with their Sogdian (Central Asia) and Aksumite (East Africa) counterparts are analyzed. The book also considers the nature of trade routes and the specific connections between mercantile and religious networks, including patterns of construction of religious shrines and temples along trade routes. Integrating epigraphic, numismatic, literary and archaeological evidence, this book moves away from a marginal treatment of the Indo-Sasanian trade in Indian history, and demonstrates how regional economic history must address a plurality of causes, actors, and processes in its assessment of the regional economy. The book will be of interest to students and academics of Indian economic history, as well as the ancient economies of South Asia more broadly.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Gandhāra Sculpture in the British Museum: Text by : British Museum
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Gandhāra Sculpture in the British Museum: Text written by British Museum and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1996 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue publishes the British Museum's collection of Gandhara sculpture. It illustrates and describes 680 objects, and where possible includes comparisons and literary references. The catalogue also contains an extensive bibliography as well as concordances and indexes.
Book Synopsis EurASEAA14 Volume I: Ancient and Living Traditions by : Helen Lewis
Download or read book EurASEAA14 Volume I: Ancient and Living Traditions written by Helen Lewis and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises papers originally presented at the EurASEAA14 conference in 2012, updated for publication. It focuses on topics under the broad themes of archaeology and art history, epigraphy, philology, historic archaeology, ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, ethnomusicology, materials studies, and long-distance trade and exchange.
Book Synopsis An Investigation of the Style and Chronology of Indian Sculpture by : Jeanne L Trabold
Download or read book An Investigation of the Style and Chronology of Indian Sculpture written by Jeanne L Trabold and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Image Problems by : Robert Daniel DeCaroli
Download or read book Image Problems written by Robert Daniel DeCaroli and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within the Buddhist community and in society at large. By comparing innovations in Brahmanical, Jain, and royal artistic practice, DeCaroli examines why no image of the Buddha was made until approximately five hundred years after his death and what changed in the centuries surrounding the start of the Common Era to suddenly make those images desirable and acceptable. The textual and archaeological sources reveal that figural likenesses held special importance in South Asia and were seen as having a significant amount of agency and power. Anxiety over image use extended well beyond the Buddhists, helping to explain why images of Vedic gods, Jain teachers, and political elites also are absent from the material record of the centuries BCE. DeCaroli shows how the emergence of powerful dynasties and rulers, who benefited from novel modes of visual authority, was at the root of the changes in attitude toward figural images. However, as DeCaroli demonstrates, a strain of unease with figural art persisted, even after a tradition of images of the Buddha had become established.
Book Synopsis Gandhāra Sculpture in the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh by : Dipak Chandra Bhattacharyya
Download or read book Gandhāra Sculpture in the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh written by Dipak Chandra Bhattacharyya and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to Reference Materials on India by : N. N. Gidwani
Download or read book A Guide to Reference Materials on India written by N. N. Gidwani and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography on India; includes periodicals.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Indian Art, History & Archaeology by :
Download or read book Bibliography of Indian Art, History & Archaeology written by and published by Delhi : Delhi Printers Prakashan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : Prince of Wales Museum of Western India
Download or read book Bulletin written by Prince of Wales Museum of Western India and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE by : Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
Download or read book History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE written by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism, and the proliferation of cults of nature divinities. This book provides a wealth of reference material useful for historians of early Indian art, religion, and epigraphy. The book is illustrated with over three hundred photographs, and it includes epigraphic appendices with complete transcriptions and updated translations.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Hinduism by : Margaret and James Stutley
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hinduism written by Margaret and James Stutley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Hinduism’ is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people. But any simple definition of it is difficult, if not impossible. This is partly owing to the nuances of the Sanskrit language, in which many texts are written, and partly to the too literal interpretation of Hindu imagery and mythology that often veils its real significance. This book, first published in 1977, is an essential reference source that goes some way to clarifying the difficulties of understanding Hinduism.
Book Synopsis The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art by : Wannaporn Rienjang
Download or read book The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art written by Wannaporn Rienjang and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archaeologists and smugglers of the Raj to the museums of post-partition Pakistan and India, from coin-forgers and contraband to modern Buddhism and contemporary art, this fourth volume of the Gandhāra Connections project presents the most recent research on the factors that mediate our encounter with Gandhāran art.
Book Synopsis Horse in Early Indian Art by : T. K. Biswas
Download or read book Horse in Early Indian Art written by T. K. Biswas and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations: Numerous B/w Illustrations Description: Horse has been one of the noblest animals whose use came quite handy to man at very early age. For its nobility, energy and power horse was very soon universally acknowledged for the progress of human civilization. In its tremendous energy and power, man discovered something unusual and something divine and as such all over the ancient world some sort of divine flavour came to be attached to it by countries evolving different civilizations. The usefulness of this animal was also felt by our ancestors who attributed it to a high position and allowed the same to be symbolic theriomorphically of some of their very important gods and goddesses. Religious recognition which the horse received from the early Indians had also inspired Indian artists to compose meaningful and fascinating themes in stone, terracotta and in colour with horse as the pivotal character. Only a few books and articles have so far been written on animals in Indian art and in each case the studies have been very summarily undertaken. The present work for the first time studies exhaustively a single animal viz., the horse. Various aspects of horse including its history, its place and position in Indian mythology and its depictions in early Indian art have been dealt with utter devotion and affectionate sympathy.
