Exploring India's Sacred Art: Selected Writings - Softcover

Kramrisch, Stella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812211340 ISBN 13: 9780812211344

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983

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Book by Barbara Stoler Miller

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"A superb biographcal essay on Stella Kramrisch and a careful selection of her extensive writings present a picture of this extraordinary scholar whose work has, in many ways, shaped the study of Indian art both here and in India itself."--Asia Magazine

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Stella Kramrisch (1896-1993) was a pioneering interpreter of Indian art and its religious contexts. During her sixty-year career as a creative scholar, teacher, museum curator, and editor, she was been a dominant force in shaping European, American, and Asian notions of Indian culture. Exploring India's Sacred Art presents a selection of her influential essays, along with a biographical essay.

The writings collected here emphasize the cultural and symbolic values of Indian art. The first section discusses the social and religious contexts of art. This is followed by essays on various forms of ritual art. The section entitled "The Subtle Body" is derived from her term for the form that underlies concrete shapes; it includes studies of literary and visual symbolism. Further essays concentrate on formal and technical aspects of temple structure and painting in the context of their symbolic meaning.

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• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0812211340
• ISBN 13: 9780812211344
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Miller Barbara Stoler