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INDIAN ART & AESTHETICS : Endeavours in Interpretation

By :- Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari

Edited By :- Kamal Giri

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Pages: xiv+110

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-263-7

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2004

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Indian art reflects the intimate relationship of ideas and life along with material and spiritual world, expressed through different visual forms in sculpture painting and architecture. This book aims at presenting various shades of Indian art in a historical perspective and contains not only the unpublished material but also the analyses and fresh interpretations on different aspects of Indian art including Buddhist and Jaina iconography, aesthetics and art appreciation and painting.The discussions on the Indian jade-carving, rare yogini, Visvarupa and Visnu images are also significant. The present volume thus aims at documenting and analysing some of the living and past traditions of Indian art. Profusely illustrated, the book will be equally useful for the scholars, researchers and all others interested in the art heritage of India.

Preface List of Plates List of Contributors 1. A Rare Yogini Sculpture with Bells - R.C. Agrawala. 2. Notes on the Origins of the Tibetan Iconography of Avalokitesvara - Gian Giuseppe Filippe 3. Fresh Light on the History of Indian Jade-Carving ? M.L.Nigam 4. Vision to Appreciate Art ? R.C. Sharma 5. The History and Art of Jaipur Painting: A Reappraisal ? Chandramani Singh 6. Representation of Ramakatha in the Nilkanthesvara Temple at Kekind ? Neelima Vashishtha 7. Objects of Beauty, Not Art Objects ? Harsha V. Dehejia 8. Decorated Bricks from Sarnath Museum ? Niharika 9. A Forgotten Jaina Centre: Bhalki ? Hampa Nagarajaiah 10. Apsaras Figures from Kankali Mound, Mathura ? S.D. Trivedi 11. Identifcation of Pitcher Carners in Gaja-Laksmi Reliefs ? A.L. Srivastava 12. Some Aspects of Inscribed Jaina Images ? Krishna Kumari Myneni 13. Little Known Visvarupa Image from Himachal Pradesh ? Subhashini Aryan 14. Kapilesvara Temple of Charada ? P.K. Nayak 15. Symbols in Indian Art: An Overview ? Savita Sharma 16. A Study of Two Vaisnava Manuscripts in the Western Indian Style: Harilila-Sodasa-Kala and Prabodha-Candrodaya ? Rashmi Kala Agrawal 17. Feminine Beauty in Divine Figures in Indian Art ? Haripriya Rangarajan 18. A Note on a Rare Visnu Image from Varanasi ? Kamal Giri & Pramod Giri

Prof. Maruti Nandan Tiwari is the Head of the Department of History of Art, Banaras Hindu University. He did his Ph.D. in Jaina Iconography and has worked extensively on different areas of Indian Art. Besides 100 research articles, Prof. Tiwari has seven books to his credit which include Jaina Pratimavijnana, Elements of Jaina Iconography, Jaina Art of Khajuraho, Ambika in Jaina Art and Literature, Madhyakalina Bhartiya Murtikala (joint), Madhyakalina Bhartiya Pratimalaksana (joint), Kasi Ke Mandira aur Murtiyan (joint) and Jaina Kala Tritha : Deogarh (joint). Prof. Tiwari also organized an International Seminar on the Art of Khajuraho at Khajuraho in February 1987 and edited the Proceedings of the Seminar jointly with Prof. Kamal Giri. He is also the Editor of Kala: The Journal of Indian Art History Congress. Prof. Kamal Giri, Hon. Joint Director, Jnana-Pravaha ? Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi, recently retired from the Department of History of Art, Banaras Hindu University after completing thirty-three years of teaching assignment. She has published more than 100 research papers on different aspects of Indian Art and Culture and presented papers in the seminars in India and abroad. She has five books to her credit on Indian Art and Culture. She has been the Assistant Editor of Chhavi: Felicitation Volume of Rai Krishnadas (1981) and the Editor of Khajuraho in Perspective (1994). She has also been editing Kala: The Journal of Indian Art History Congress since1995-96.

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