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Author : Devendra Nātha Śukla
Release : 1995
Genre : Hindu architecture
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Book Synopsis Vāstu-śāstra: Hindu canons of iconography and painting by : Devendra Nātha Śukla
Download or read book Vāstu-śāstra: Hindu canons of iconography and painting written by Devendra Nātha Śukla. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Stutley
Release : 2019-04-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography by : Margaret Stutley
Download or read book The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography written by Margaret Stutley. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. This book, first published in 1985, covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the style of prehistoric art. The dictionary demonstrates the rich profusion of cults, divinities, symbols, sects and philosophical views encompassed by the Hindu religious tradition.
Author : Dvijendranātha Śukla
Release : 1958
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Book Synopsis Vāstu-Śāstra by : Dvijendranātha Śukla
Download or read book Vāstu-Śāstra written by Dvijendranātha Śukla. This book was released on 1958. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D. Collins
Release : 1988-11-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Iconography and Ritual of Śiva at Elephanta by : Charles D. Collins
Download or read book The Iconography and Ritual of Śiva at Elephanta written by Charles D. Collins. This book was released on 1988-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful rock-cut Siva temple on Elephanta Island in Bombay Harbor is one of the finest monuments of Indian religion and art. Until now, interpretation of its magnificent sculptured scenes has been neglected. In this book, Collins systematically surveys the pertinent Vedic, Epic, and early Puranic literature as well as the contributions of India's foremost poet and dramatist, Kalidasa, to reveal sources for and interpretations of the subjects of the relief sculptures. This survey shows strong associations with areas formerly controlled by the classical Gupta dynasty in northern India. This book provides the first detailing of this link, intimated by others before, which helps to explain the grandeur of style found in the colossal reliefs. By applying certain aspects of ritual texts of the Lakulisa-Pasupata, the sect that probably used Elephanta originally, exceptional clarity is revealed for the worship of the sculptures in a counterclockwise sequence, quite unusual in India, but appropriate to this particular sect. Lakulisa-Pasupata texts are invoked in Collins' theory of how the cave-temple at Elephanta was used. This area of investigation has been virtually untouched by other scholars for any early Hindu shrine in India.
Author : Angela Hobart
Release : 2005
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Aesthetics in Performance by : Angela Hobart
Download or read book Aesthetics in Performance written by Angela Hobart. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the "logic" of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience. Angela Hobart is the coordinating lecturer at Goldsmiths College on Intercultural Therapy and lectures at the British Museum on the Art and Culture of South East Asia. Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.
