Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780875871295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Indian Sculpture
Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780875871295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780875871295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
An Investigation of the Style and Chronology of Indian Sculpture
Author: Jeanne L Trabold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
A Survey of Hinduism
Author: Klaus K. Klostermaier
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
This third edition of the classic text updates the information contained in the earlier editions, and includes new chapters on the origins of Hinduism; its history of relations with Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam; Hindu science; and Hindu measures of time. The chronology and the bibliography have been updated as well. A comprehensive survey of the Hindu tradition, the book deals with the history of Hinduism, the sacred writings of the Hindus, the Hindu worldview, and the specifics of the major branches of Hinduism—Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism. It also focuses on the geographical ties of Hinduism with the land of India, the social order created by Hinduism, and the various systems of Hindu thought. Klaus K. Klostermaier describes the development of Hinduism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including present-day political Hinduism and the efforts to turn Hinduism into a modern world religion. A unique feature of the book is its treatment of Hinduism in a topical fashion, rather than by chronological description of the development of Hinduism or by summary of the literature. The complexities of Hindu life and thought are thus made real to the reader, and Hindus will recognize it as their own tradition.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
This third edition of the classic text updates the information contained in the earlier editions, and includes new chapters on the origins of Hinduism; its history of relations with Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam; Hindu science; and Hindu measures of time. The chronology and the bibliography have been updated as well. A comprehensive survey of the Hindu tradition, the book deals with the history of Hinduism, the sacred writings of the Hindus, the Hindu worldview, and the specifics of the major branches of Hinduism—Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism. It also focuses on the geographical ties of Hinduism with the land of India, the social order created by Hinduism, and the various systems of Hindu thought. Klaus K. Klostermaier describes the development of Hinduism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including present-day political Hinduism and the efforts to turn Hinduism into a modern world religion. A unique feature of the book is its treatment of Hinduism in a topical fashion, rather than by chronological description of the development of Hinduism or by summary of the literature. The complexities of Hindu life and thought are thus made real to the reader, and Hindus will recognize it as their own tradition.
The Art of Ancient India
Author: Susan L. Huntington
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120836170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120836170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
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.
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
Folk Art
Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253067235
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253067235
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
The 'Pāla-Sena' Schools of Sculpture
Author: Susan L Huntington
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004646507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004646507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Select List of Recent Publications
Author: East-West Center. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Temple to Love
Author: Pika Ghosh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253344878
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Includes 82 stunning black-and-white images of rarely photographed structures.Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253344878
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Includes 82 stunning black-and-white images of rarely photographed structures.Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies
Buddhist Learning in South Asia
Author: Pintu Kumar
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498554938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Śrī Nālandā Mahāvihāra from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth, management, and academic and cultural life of Nālandā, with particular attention to its pedagogy, curriculum, teachers, and students. It also presents an alternative interpretation of nationalist and popular notions about Śrī Nālandā as an international university and proves that it was, at its core, a Buddhist monastery and an institution of Buddhist learning focused on the study and promotion of Buddhism.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498554938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Śrī Nālandā Mahāvihāra from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth, management, and academic and cultural life of Nālandā, with particular attention to its pedagogy, curriculum, teachers, and students. It also presents an alternative interpretation of nationalist and popular notions about Śrī Nālandā as an international university and proves that it was, at its core, a Buddhist monastery and an institution of Buddhist learning focused on the study and promotion of Buddhism.