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Garland of Visions

Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting

Jinah Kim

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English
University of California Press
16 February 2021
"Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of ""seeing"" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge—ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious—and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting."
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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   998g
ISBN:   9780520343214
ISBN 10:   0520343212
Pages:   352
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgments  Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: MEDIUM 1. Painting and Its Medium  2. The Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia PART TWO: VISION 3. Visions on the Move 4. A Garland of Visions PART THREE: COLOR 5. Color as an Encoding Tool  6. Color to Matter: A Material History of Indian Painting  Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Illustrations Index

Jinah Kim is George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Harvard University. She is the author of Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia.

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