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Author : Thanjavur Art Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Thanjavur Art Gallery Bronze Sculptures written by Thanjavur Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce M. Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147259083X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces written by Bruce M. Sullivan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the communities that created and used them. How, though, are such objects to be understood, described, exhibited, and handled now that they are in museums? Are they still sacred objects, or formerly sacred objects that are now art objects, or are they simultaneously objects of religious and artistic significance, depending on who is viewing the object? These objects not only raise questions about their own identities, but also about the ways we understand the religious traditions in which these objects were created and which they represent in museums today. Bringing together religious studies scholars and museum curators, Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces is the first volume to focus on Asian religions in relation to these questions. The contributors analyze an array of issues related to the exhibition in museums of objects of religious significance from Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh traditions. The “lives” of objects are considered, along with the categories of “sacred” and “profane”, “religious” and “secular”. As interest in material manifestations of religious ideas and practices continues to grow, Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces is a much-needed contribution to religious and Asian studies, anthropology of religion and museums studies.
Author : Vidya Dehejia
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691253064
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Thief Who Stole My Heart written by Vidya Dehejia and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as “the thief who stole my heart”—were adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book, leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities, proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the Chola empire’s political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the Cholas’ religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete immersion in a community still accessible to us through its exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Author : Richard H. Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844428
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Lives of Indian Images written by Richard H. Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries. He shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the only ones to enliven images. Bringing with them differing religious assumptions, political agendas, and economic motivations, others may animate the very same objects as icons of sovereignty, as polytheistic "idols," as "devils," as potentially lucrative commodities, as objects of sculptural art, or as symbols for a whole range of new meanings never foreseen by the images' makers or original worshipers.
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Publisher : Vantage Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of Indian Bronzes and Metal Sculpture written by and published by Vantage Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Guy
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Temple Sculpture written by John Guy and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book, illustrated with the V&A's unrivalled collection of South-Asian sculpture, looks at Indian temple sculpture in context, as an instrument of worship which embodies powerful religious experience. John Guy considers its cosmological meaning, its origins, the temple setting and the role of sculpture within it and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. It is also an absorbing introduction to the principal iconographic forms in the three traditional religions of the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, with the principal deities presented through their myths and manifestations.
Author : Kenneth Hudson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349070149
Total Pages : 1067 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Directory of Museums & Living Displays written by Kenneth Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Job Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tiruvengadu Bronzes written by Job Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On recently-discovered bronze images of the Svetaranyesvara Temple at Tiruvengadu, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu.
Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Penkower
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173906
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Hindu Ritual at the Margins written by Linda Penkower and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic, social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings where ritual itself or direct discussion of ritual is absent; in contexts that create new opportunities for traditionally marginalized participants or challenge the received tradition; and via theoretical perspectives that have been undervalued in the academy. In the first of three sections, contributors explore the ways in which Hindu ritual performed in Indian contexts intersects with historical, contextual, and social change. They examine the changing significance and understanding of particular deities, the identity and agency of ritual actors, and the instrumentality of ritual in new media. Essays in the second section examine ritual practices outside of India, focusing on evolving ritual claims to authority in mixed cultures (such as Malaysia), the reshaping of gender dynamics of ritual at an American temple, and the democratic reshaping of ritual forms in Canadian Hindu communities. The final section considers the implications for ritual studies of the efficacy of bodily acts divorced from intention, contemporary spiritual practice as opposed to religious-bound ritual, and the notion of dharma. Based on a conference on Hindu ritual held in 2006 at the University of Pittsburgh, Hindu Ritual at the Margins seeks to elucidate the ways ritual actors come to shape ritual practices or conceptions pertaining to ritual and how studying ritual in marginal contexts—at points of dynamic tension—requires scholars to reshape their understanding of ritual activity.
Author : Krithika Subrahmanian
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 163714539X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The Next Big Thing - Thanjavur written by Krithika Subrahmanian and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiential elements of a place lasting in human memory are Sounds, Textures, Patterns, and Fragrances. Emerging in habitual tapestry, these elements unfold in our travels. This volume presents a complete photographic and textual record of the city of Thanjavur, representing precise documentation and keen eyes of talented local photographers. Delineating nuances without posing an academic tone, this book focuses on weaving together the multifarious fragments of a small culturally vibrant Tamil town. Treasures seek to unearth the hidden gems of Tamil Nadu.
Author : Shobita Punja
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9385890409
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Khajuraho written by Shobita Punja and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of the critically-acclaimed Divine Ecstasy: The Story of Khajuraho, this is an eye-opening book on one of India's most fascinating heritage sites and is indispensable reading for all those interested in rediscovering India's cultural past. Includes 67 photographs.
Author : Julius Lipner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351967827
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Hindu Images and Their Worship with Special Reference to Vaisnavism written by Julius Lipner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism. Concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on Sanskritic source material, the author shows in the course of the book that Hindu image-worship may be understood via three levels of interpretation: the metaphysical/theological, the narratival or mythic, and the performative or ritual.
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405388498
Total Pages : 1726 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to India written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to India is the most comprehensive travel guide to this fascinating country, with knowledgable descriptions of its stunning temples, mosques, museums and other sights. There are detailed listings of accommodation, restaurants and nightlife options to suit all budgets, as well as clear guidance through the maze of Indian transportation links. These features are accurately marked on attractively designed maps of all the states, major cities and other areas of interest to travellers, from Delhi's Paharganj to Havelock Island in the Andamans. Add to this superb photography showing a selection of India's highlights and three sections covering the themes of handicrafts, Bollywood and sacred places. Many practical issues such as social and etiquette tips are given in the opening Basics section, while Contexts gives a rich background in the country's history, religions, wildlife and some handy assistance with the predominant language, Hindi.
Author : George Michell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521441100
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Art of Southern India written by George Michell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Michell provides a pioneering and richly illustrated introduction to the architecture, sculpture and painting of Southern India under the Vijayanagara empire and the states that succeeded it. This period, encompassing some four hundred years, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, was endowed with an abundance of religious and royal monuments which remain as testimonies to the history and ideology behind their evolution. The author evaluates the legacy of this artistic heritage, describing and illustrating buildings, sculptures and paintings that have never been published before. In a previously neglected area of art history, the author presents an original and much-needed reassessment.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lennie Pillay
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Heavenly Bliss written by Lennie Pillay and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Heavenly Bliss,' immerse yourself in a journey of spiritual awakening and enlightenment. This captivating memoir chronicles the author's 41-year odyssey alongside their guru, navigating challenges, diverse cultures, and personal growth. Against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa, the book unveils profound lessons of optimism, resilience, and the pursuit of inner peace. Delve into the essence of creation, purpose, and self-discovery, and gain invaluable insights into the pursuit of happiness and stress management. With tales of devotion to Lord Krishna and encounters with spiritual luminaries, this book imparts wisdom for seekers of all backgrounds. From Shirdi Baba to Sathya Sai Baba, the spiritual odyssey unfolds, inspiring readers to embrace spirituality, regardless of creed or race. Discover the transformative power of faith, as the author's encounters lead to divine revelations and ultimate union.
