Art, myths and visual culture of South Asia
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Art, myths and visual culture of South Asia
(Warsaw Indological studies, v. 4)
Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2011
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: Contributed articles
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The study of South Asian Art requires not only expert knowledge of an art historian, but also sound philological proficiency and cultural competence of an Indologist. This calls for a close co-operation of specialists in both fields. The present volume of interdisciplinary character is just this: a solid exemplification of this vital principle. The volume presents a collection of stimulating and inspiring papers linked by a common theme which incorporates various aspects of art, religion, myths, parables, symbols, literature and visual culture of the region of South Asia. The researchers interests go, in certain aspects, far beyond the geographical boundaries of South Asia and reach out to South-East Asia and even to Europe and Far East, revealing close cultural linkages and influences. The collection offers an entirely new material which explores a range of important motives and themes concerned with the art and visual culture of the region of South Asia, and partially with South-East Asia.
The authors examine a wide range of aspects of South Asian art, including sculpture, painting and decorative art, related to religious practice, temple consecration rituals, mythology and cult, eroticism, politics and power as well as the history and spread of artistic and mythological motives from South Asia to other parts of the world.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Table of transcription of Sanskrit terms
- Note on Contributors
- Myth Parable and Art: Acts of Master Visvakarman in Bengali Poems by Barbara Grabowska
- The Parable of The Man in the Well. Its Travels and its Pictorial Traditions from Amaravati to Today by Monika Zin
- The Body and the Cosmos in Jaina Mythology and Art by Piotr Balcerowicz
- The Spread of Buddhism from India to Sri Lanka: Its Visual Representation by Silke K. Yasmin Fischer
- Ritual, Sex and Power: Temple Consecration Rituals in the Hindu Tradition of South and South-Esat Asia: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence by Ana Slaczka
- Facial Expression in the Erotic Art of Khajuraho. A Primary Investigation by David Smith
- Building Visual Order in Kashmir: Analysis of Architectural Structures as Described in the Visnu-dharmottara-purana by Valdas Jakunas
- Cultural Heritage: Terracotta Art in the Gangetic Valley under the Guptas by Samir Kumar Mukherjee
- Chemical Conservation of Hinayana Paintings of the 2nd BCE, Cave No. 10, Ajanta by M. Singh, R.S. Trambake, D.A. Gupta
- Reading Images and Interpreting the Context: Differentiating Between Iconography and Iconology According to Erwin Panofkys Three Phase Analysis by Asoka Zoysa
- General Index
- Appendix: List of Illustrations and Colour Plates.
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