Temple to Love – Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth–Century Bengal
Autor Pika Ghoshen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 apr 2005
" A]dvances our knowledge of... Bengali temple building practices, the complex inter-reliance between religion, state power, and art, and the ways in which Western colonial assumptions have distorted correct interpretation.... A splendid book." -Rachel Fell McDermott
In the flux created by the Mughal conquest, Hindu landholders of eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, known as Ratna. This "bejeweled" style combined features of Sultanate mosques and thatched houses, and included second-story rooms conceived as the pleasure grounds of the gods, where Krishna and his beloved Radha could rekindle their passion. Pika Ghosh uses art historical, archaeological, textual, and ethnographic approaches to explore this innovation in the context of its times. Includes 82 stunning black-and-white images of rarely photographed structures.
Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253344878
ISBN-10: 0253344875
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 88 b&w
Dimensiuni: 185 x 263 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253344875
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 88 b&w
Dimensiuni: 185 x 263 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
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[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple. . . . This work is not just art historical but embraces . . . religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature. Catherine B. Asher [A]dvances our knowledge of . . . Bengali temple building practices, the complex inter-reliance between religion, state power, and art, and the ways in which Western colonial assumptions have distorted correct interpretation. . . . A splendid book. Rachel Fell McDermott"THis book contributes significantly to our understanding of Bengali architecture."--TIMESHIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT, 25 November 2005
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In richly-illustrated detail, identifies a radical new style of temple architecture in 17th-century India and relates it to cultural, political, and religious currents of the time.