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LISTENING TO ICONS: Indian Iconographic and Iconological Studies (Vol. I)

LISTENING TO ICONS: Indian Iconographic and Iconological Studies (Vol. I)

By :- Doris Meth Srinivasan

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Pages: xvi+352

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-551-5

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2016

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This anthology represents papers most characteristic of the author’s investigative strengths and methods in the domains of Indian art history and Indology. The selected papers were published between 1979 and 2015. In numerous cases, the large time span covered by these papers has been brought up-to-date. New information reflects developments in the field or in the author’s thinking, and it is noted by an asterisk  at  the  end  of  a  given  paper.

The sixteen papers in Volume I fall within four main themes: Saiva, Vaisnava, Secular and Folk Themes as well as Narrative Art. Within these broad categories, analyses and interpretations range across a wide spectrum: Indus Valley material, early sectarian sculpture, temple architecture, miniature paintings, Vedic ritual construction. Most of the topics treat the art in the context of the culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plains, that is, India above the Vindhya Mountains. The author’s studies on the arts beyond this region, comprising the arts from Gandhara, will form the contents of Volume  II.

Some specific topics advanced in this volume are: the likely Vedic origin of Rudra-Siva; the meaning and significance of Saiva and Vaisnava icons with the multiplicity convention; Krsna’s Pre Puranic imagery from Mathura; a new attribute associated with Samkarsana/Balarama; the importance of courtesans in ancient India and a newly recognized statue of one beauty; icons attesting to ancient Snake cults; understanding the artistic consequences of Mathura’s emphasis on the oral transmission  of  sacred  knowledge.

Scholars and students alike will be stimulated by the findings and methodology  found  in  this  volume.




Foreword Listening ? My Way Abbreviations SAIVA THEMES 1. Unhinging Siva from the Indus Civilization 2. Vedic Rudra-Siva 3. Ritual as Icon in India 4. Significance and Scope of Pre-Kusana Saivite Iconography 5. Saiva Temple Forms: Loci of God?s Unfolding Body 6. From Transcendency to Materiality: Para Siva, Sadasiva, and Mahesa in Indian Art VAISNAVITE THEMES 7. Bhagavan Narayana: A Colossal Kusana Icon 8. Early Vaisnava Imagery: Caturvyuha and Variant Forms 9. Visvarupa Vyuha Avatara: Reappraisals Based on an Inscribed Bronze from the Northwest Dated to the Early 5th Century AD 10. A Unique Mathura Eight-armed Visnu of the 4th Century AD 11. Early Krsna Icons: The Case at Mathura 12. Samkarsana/Balarama and the Mountain: A New Attribute SECULAR AND FOLK THEMES 13. Royalty?s Courtesans and God?s Mortal Wives: Keepers of Culture in Precolonial India 14. The Mauryan Ganika from Didarganj (Pa?aliputra) 15. Monumental Naginis from Mathura NARRATIVES 16. Mathura?s ?Personality? and the Development of Narrative Art


Doris Meth Srinivasan is Research Professor, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies/Center of India Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook. A Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, she has authored nearly ninety publications including a documentary film on the Hindu Ritual Sandhya. Her books include: On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kusana World (Editor, Brill, 2007); Many Heads, Arms and Eyes. Origin, Meaning and Form of Multiplicity in Indian Art (Brill, 1997); Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times (Studies in the History of Art No. 31, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, London and Hanover, 1993); Mathura: The Cultural Heritage (Editor, Sponsored by The American Institute of Indian Studies, Delhi, 1989); Concept of Cow in the Rig Veda (Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1979). Her papers and reviews are mainly in the areas of specializations: early Hindu and Buddhist art of South Asia; Brahmanic religion and culture. A Getty Scholar in 1999, she held the Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis, 2001-2002. Some of her awards include: National Endowment for the Humanities grant (twice); American Institute of Indian Studies Fellow (twice); ACLS Fellow; President: American Committee for South Asian Art, 1984-1987. She taught at Columbia University; George Washington University; Haverford College; George Mason University; and was the Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

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