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Overview"In this wide-ranging exploration of the creation and use of Buddhist art in Andhra Pradesh, India, Catherine Becker examines how material remains and visual experiences shape and reveal essential human concerns.Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past addresses the fundamental Buddhist question of how humanity progresses centuries after the passing of its teacher, the Buddha Sakyamuni. How might the Buddha's distant teachings be made immediate and accessible? Beginning with an analysis of the spectacular relief sculptures that once adorned the stupas. Over a period of almost two millennia, many of these stupas have fallen into disrepair. While it is tempting to view these monuments as ruins, they are by no means ""dead."" Turning to the 20th and 21st centuries, Becker analyzes examples of new Buddhist imagery, recent state-sponsored tourism campaigns, and new devotional activities at the sites in order to demonstrate that the stupas of Andhra Pradesh and their sculptural adornments continue to engage the human imagination and are even ascribed innate power and agency. Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past reveals intriguing parallels between ancient uses of imagery and the new social, political, and religious functions of these objects and spaces." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Becker (Assistant Professor of Art History, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.621kg ISBN: 9780199359394ISBN 10: 0199359393 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 02 October 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Keeping the Faith: Andhra's Stupas as Sites of Transformation 2. Seeing is Believing: Visual Narration at Andhra's Stupas 3. Hyderabad's Hussain Sagar Buddha 4. Marketing Enlightenment: The Development of Andhra's Buddhist Tourist Potential 5. Kalachakra 2006: Amaravati Welcomes the World Epilogue Bibliography IndexReviewsThere is much to learn in this fine study focusing on the Buddhist art of Andhra, not the least of which is the importance for Buddhist studies of combining a broad range of material and disciplinary perspectives with good art historical methodology. Eschewing an attempt to reassemble the now scattered remains of this region's most famous monuments, Becker has nonetheless constructed a better sense of how and why they matter than has ever been achieved. --Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor of Asian art, University of Texas at Austin There is much to learn in this fine study focusing on the Buddhist art of Andhra, not the least of which is the importance for Buddhist studies of combining a broad range of material and disciplinary perspectives with good art historical methodology. Eschewing an attempt to reassemble the now scattered remains of this region's most famous monuments, Becker has nonetheless constructed a better sense of how and why they matter than has ever been achieved. * Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor of Asian art, University of Texas at Austin * There is much to learn in this fine study focusing on the Buddhist art of Andhra, not the least of which is the importance for Buddhist studies of combining a broad range of material and disciplinary perspectives with good art historical methodology. Eschewing an attempt to reassemble the now scattered remains of this region's most famous monuments, Becker has nonetheless constructed a better sense of how and why they matter than has ever been achieved. Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor of Asian art, University of Texas at Austin Author InformationCatherine Becker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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