Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India seeks to locate the historical contexts of premodern Indian art traditions. The volume examines significant questions, such as:
What were the purposes served by art?
How were religious and political ideas and philosophies conveyed through visual representations?
How central were prescription, technique and style to the production of art?
Who were the makers and patrons of art?
How and why do certain art forms, meanings and symbols retain a relevance
across context?
With contributions from historians and art historians seeking to unravel the interface between art and history, the volume dwells on the significance of visual representations in specific regional historical contexts, the range of symbolic signification attached to these and the mythologies and textual prescriptions that contribute to the codification and use of representational forms.
Supplemented with over 60 images, this volume is a must-read for scholars and
researchers of history and art.
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Index
A
Abhayacandra, 216
abhayahasta, 237
Abhayankara Gupta, 192
AĢbhiĢra, 21, 23ā29
AĢbhiĢraka, xxxviii, 20ā25, 27
Abhisaį¹bodhi Vairocana, 187
abhisĢ£eka, 142, 182, 250ā251, 256
aĢcaĢrya, xxxii, 44ā45, 186ā187, 192, 221, 255, 257, 260
AcyuptÄ, 141ā142
Adichanallur, 154
AĢdipuraĢnĢ£a, 145
ÄdimÅ«rti, 178
Ägama/Ägamic, xxxi, 38, 89, 165, 280ā281
Agarwal, V.S., 296
Agrawala, P.K., 97
Ai Khanum, 8, 14, 27
Aihole, xxxiv, 35ā36, 39ā40, 50, 52ā53
Ajanta, 300ā301, 323
Akhaį¹įøaleÅvara, 176
aksĢ£amaĢlÄ, 70, 119
aksĢ£asĢaĢla, xxxiv
akį¹£ayanÄ«vÄ«, 215
akį¹£obhya, 122ā123, 186
Alakį¹£mÄ«, 157
alaktaka, 251
alasÄ, 255
bandha, 247
kanyÄ, xl, 245, 247ā248, 251, 253
yantra, 265
Alagankulam, 154
AĢlĢ±vaĢr, 40, 69, 169
aĢmalaka, 39
Ampar PurÄį¹am, 165
AmitÄbha, 186
Amoghasiddhi, 186
aį¹ÅumÄlÄ, 291
Anaį¹
gabhimadeva, 175ā176, 193
Aį¹aį¹
ku, 154
Anantavarman Coįøagaį¹
ga, 196, 261
Andhra/AĢndhra, xxxiii, 26, 41, 152, 163, 210, 212, 269
Andhras, 25
anĢkusĢa, 98, 136, 138
antar...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Images, Tables and Figure
- Acknowledgements
- Visual Representations as Historical Source in Ancient and Early Medieval India: An Introduction
- I. Visualising Power: Sacred and Temporal
- II. Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: Forms, Meanings and Symbols
- III. Religious Traditions, Visual Representations and Regional Contexts
- IV. Social Imaginaries and the Ocular
- V. Prescriptions and Representations
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Index
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