Author: Claudine Bautze-Picron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783496026679
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Art of Eastern India in the Collection of the Museum Für Indische Kunst, Berlin
Author: Claudine Bautze-Picron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783496026679
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783496026679
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Art of Eastern India in the Collection of the Museum Für Indische Kunst, Berlin
Author: Claudine Bautze-Picron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783948791285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783948791285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Museum of Indian Art, Berlin
Author: Museum für Indische Kunst (Germany)
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The newly opened museum holds a magnificent collection of art from India and its surrounding countries, spanning over 4,000 years.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The newly opened museum holds a magnificent collection of art from India and its surrounding countries, spanning over 4,000 years.
The Art of Eastern India
Author: Frederick M. Asher
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912254
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912254
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Central Asian Art from the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin, SMPK
Author: Marianne Yaldiz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Portraiture in Early India
Author: Vincent Lefèvre
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900420735X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious implications related to this issue.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900420735X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious implications related to this issue.
The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
Author: Kevin Trainor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190632925
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
"This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Essays explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their respective subject areas and taken together offer an overview of current thinking in the field. The volume is of particular value to scholars who seek an orientation to current perspectives on important conceptual, theoretical, and methodological concerns that are shaping the field in areas outside their primary expertise. The inclusion of substantial, up-to-date bibliographies also makes the volume an important guide to current scholarship"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190632925
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
"This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Essays explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their respective subject areas and taken together offer an overview of current thinking in the field. The volume is of particular value to scholars who seek an orientation to current perspectives on important conceptual, theoretical, and methodological concerns that are shaping the field in areas outside their primary expertise. The inclusion of substantial, up-to-date bibliographies also makes the volume an important guide to current scholarship"--
Archaeology of Eastern India
Author: Sheena Panja
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The book highlights the emperical work in diverse archaeological areas of Eastern india & deals with related problems of the region. Like new.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The book highlights the emperical work in diverse archaeological areas of Eastern india & deals with related problems of the region. Like new.
From Temple to Museum
Author: Salila Kulshreshtha
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351356097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351356097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.
The Museum on the Roof of the World
Author: Clare Harris
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317471
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317471
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.