Overview

This beautiful reprint illustrates the V&A’s unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting Indian temple sculpture in its context as an instrument of worship intended to embody powerful religious experience. Author John Guy considers the origin, cosmological meaning and role of sculpture within the temple setting, and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. The book 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.

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Author:   John Guy
Publisher:   V & A Publishing
Imprint:   V & A Publishing
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 28.70cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9781851779192

ISBN 10:   1851779191
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 December 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Preface; Map; Acknowledgements; Notes to the reader; 1. Religious Sculpture of the Indian Subcontinent - Sacred word, sacred image - The image house - Icons of devotion - Myths made manifest; 2. The Rules of the Sastric Tradition - Sculpture and the sastras - Reflected image: Efficacy in Indian temple sculpture - Raising up the image - Measuring man - The maker; Opening the eyes: the consecration rituals; 3. The Temple Setting - The temple as body - Form - Function; 4. Devotion and Temple Worship - Temple worship - Devotion and Darsana (seeing God) - Temple pujas and festivals; 5. Iconography and Emotion - Expressing emotion and aesthetic delight: Rasa in Indian sculpture - reading the signs; 6. Manifestations and Appearances - Siva linga - Siva's manifestations - Vasedeva/Visnu - Dasavataras - The goddess - Nature Personified; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index

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Essential and beautiful...this lavishly illustrated book is a welcome and much needed addition to the subject of Indian religious Art. --Royal Academy Magazine

Essential and beautiful...this lavishly illustrated book is a welcome and much needed addition to the subject of Indian religious Art. -- Royal Academy Magazine

Author Information

John Guy is the curator of the Arts of South and South East Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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