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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes

Author : Pika Ghosh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000986071
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes written by Pika Ghosh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures, found objects, fragments, built environments, and ecologies. This volume takes the process of seeing as its focus—to look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely—from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements such as walking to dreaming, glancing to looking askance, hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality, aesthetics, and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research that builds on the contributions of Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology, exploring artistic media including temples and paintings as well as Bengali-quilted textiles, manuscript ‘lozenges,’ and metal repousse. This volume, part of the Visual Media and Histories Series, will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art, religious studies, and history as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Chakshudana Or Opening the Eyes

Author : Michael W. Meister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032271217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Chakshudana Or Opening the Eyes written by Michael W. Meister and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world, this practice applied to the study of art offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures, found objects, fragments, built environments, and ecologies. This volume takes as its focus the process of seeing-to look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely, from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements from walking to dreaming, from glancing to looking askance, and hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality, aesthetics and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research building on the contributions of Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology exploring artistic media including temples and paintings, as well as Bengali quilted textiles, manuscript 'lozenges,' and metal repousse. This volume, part of the Visual Media and Histories Series, will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art, religious studies, history, as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies"

Traditional Paintings of Orissa

Author : Dinanath Pathy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Paintings of Orissa written by Dinanath Pathy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Patas and the Patuas of Bengal

Author : Sankar Sen Gupta
Publisher : Calcutta : Indian Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Patas and the Patuas of Bengal written by Sankar Sen Gupta and published by Calcutta : Indian Publications. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On traditional Bengali functional paintings on canvas and their artists; an anthropological and social survey.

Hinduism and the Religious Arts

Author : Heather Elgood
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0304707392
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Hinduism and the Religious Arts written by Heather Elgood and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots between the Hindu religion and the wider culture are deep and uniquely complex. No study of either ancient or contemporary Indian culture can be undertaken without a clear understanding of Hindu visual arts and their sources in religious belief and practice. Defining what is meant by religion - no such term exists in Sanskrit - and what is understood by Hindu ideals of beauty, Heather Elgood provides the best synthesis and critical study of recent scholarship on the topic. In addition, this book offers critical background information for anyone interested in the social and anthropological roots of artistic creativity, as well as the rites, practices and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of Hindus in the world today.

Cooking for the Gods

Author : Pika Ghosh
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Cooking for the Gods written by Pika Ghosh and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooking for the Gods focuses on the special role of women in this domestic Hindu Bengali realm as they care for both their family and the numerous household deities who reside in the home shrine and partake of the cooked offerings.

Folk-lore

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Folk-lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hindu World

Author : Benjamin Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429624654
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Hindu World written by Benjamin Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes. It is the first general encyclopedia of Hinduism covering every major aspect of Hindu life and thought, embodying the results of modern scholarship yet not ignoring the traditional point of view. It contains over 700 articles, each of which gives a comprehensive account of the subject, and by a system of cross references interlinks all topics related to it, so that a single theme may be traced in all its ramifications through the whole book. An index of over 8,000 items, which in itself forms a veritable treasury of Sanskrit terms and names, will further assist the researcher finding their way among the lesser topics treated in the work.

Santhal Worldview

Author : Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170228660
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Santhal Worldview written by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Arises Out Of A Seminar On Santhal World View Held In 1997. The Essays Presented In The Book Address The Themes Of-Nature And Culture Sound And Language And Life Style And Worldview. 16 Papers-Index. The Participates From Various Disciplines In India But For Our Musicologist From Germany. Without Dustjacket.

The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate

Author : Pushkar Sohoni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183860927X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate written by Pushkar Sohoni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet their rich material record remains largely unstudied in the scholarly literature, obscuring their cultural and historical importance. This book provides the first analysis of the architecture of the Nizam Shahs. Pushkar Sohoni examines the critical relationship between architectural production, courtly practice and royal authority in a period when the aspirations and politics of the kingdom were articulated through architectural expression. Based on new primary research from key sites including the urban settlements of Ahmadnagar, Daulatabad, Aurangabad, Junnar and the port city of Chaul, Sohoni sheds light on broader Islamicate ideas of kingship and shows how this was embodied by material artefacts such as buildings and sites, paintings, gardens, guns and coins. As well as offering a vivid depiction of sixteenth-century South Asia, this book revises understanding of the cultural importance of the Nizam Shahs and their place in the Indian Ocean world. It will be a vital primary resource for scholars researching the history of the medieval and early modern Deccan and relevant for those working in Art History, Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies and Archaeology.

Indian Primitive Art

Author : Ajit Mookerjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Indian Primitive Art written by Ajit Mookerjee and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the Karkhana to the Studio

Author : Ratnabali Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From the Karkhana to the Studio written by Ratnabali Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Status and Sacredness

Author : Murray Milner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195084896
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Status and Sacredness written by Murray Milner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Status and Sacredness provides a new theory of status and sacral relationships and a provocative reinterpretation of the Indian caste system and Hinduism. Milner shows how in India and many other social contexts status is a key resource, and that sacredness can be usefully understood as a special form of status. By analysing the nature of this resource Milner is able to provide powerful explanations of the key features of the social structure, culture, and religion. He argues against the widely held view that the Indian caste system is best understood as a unique cultural development, demonstrating that many of the seemingly exotic features are variations on themes common to other societies. Milner's analysis is rooted in a new theoretical framework called "resource structuralism" that helps to clarify the nature and significance of power and symbolic capital. The book thus provides a bold new analysis of India, an innovative approach to the analysis of religion, and an important contribution to social theory.

Mediaeval Indian Painting, Eastern School, 13th Century A.D. to Modern Times, Including Folk Art

Author : Deva Prasad Ghosh
Publisher : Delhi : Sundeep Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Mediaeval Indian Painting, Eastern School, 13th Century A.D. to Modern Times, Including Folk Art written by Deva Prasad Ghosh and published by Delhi : Sundeep Prakashan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Kantha, Making Home

Author : Pika Ghosh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747005
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Making Kantha, Making Home written by Pika Ghosh and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats. Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the first study of colonial-period women’s embroidery that situates these objects historically and socially, Pika Ghosh brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion with iconography and regional culture. Ghosh uses ethnographic and archival research, inscriptions, and images to locate embroiderers’ work within domestic networks and to show how imagery from poetry, drama, prints, and watercolors expresses kantha artists’ visual literacy. Affinities with older textile practices include the region’s lucrative maritime trade in embroideries with Europe, Africa, and China. This appraisal of individual objects alongside the people and stories behind the objects’ creation elevates kantha beyond consideration as mere handcraft to recognition as art.

In Quest of Quality Education and Literature

Author : Jagannath Mohanty
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In Quest of Quality Education and Literature written by Jagannath Mohanty and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical reminiscences of Jagannath Mohanty, b. 1937, Oriya educator.

Water Histories of South Asia

Author : Sugata Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429515871
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Water Histories of South Asia written by Sugata Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators and scholars who explore the connections between the environmental and the cultural, the volume situates water in an expansive relational domain. It covers disciplines as diverse as literary studies, environmental humanities, sustainable design, urban planning and media studies. The chapters explore the ways in which material cultures of water generate technological and aesthetic acts of envisioning geographies, and make an intervention within political, social and cultural discourses. A critical interjection in the sociologies of water in the subcontinent, the book brings art history into conversation with current debates on climate change by examining water’s artistic, architectural, engineering, religious, scientific and environmental facets from the 16th century to the present. This is one of the first books on South Asia’s art, architecture and visual history to interweave the ecological with the aesthetic under the emerging field of eco art history. The volume will be of interest to scholars and general readers of art history, Islamic studies, South Asian studies, urban studies, architecture, geography, history and environmental studies. It will also appeal to activists, curators, art critics and those interested in water management.