This beautiful reprint illustrates
the V&A’s unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting Indian
temple sculpture in its context as an instrument of worship intended to
embody powerful religious experience.
Author John Guy considers the origin, cosmological meaning and role of sculpture within the temple setting, and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. The book is also an absorbing introduction to the principal iconographic forms in the three traditional religions of the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, with the principal deities presented through their myths and manifestations.
By:
John Guy
Imprint: V & A Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 287mm,
Width: 223mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.110kg
ISBN: 9781851779192
ISBN 10: 1851779191
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 March 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface; Map; Acknowledgements; Notes to the reader; 1. Religious Sculpture of the Indian Subcontinent - Sacred word, sacred image - The image house - Icons of devotion - Myths made manifest; 2. The Rules of the Sastric Tradition - Sculpture and the sastras - Reflected image: Efficacy in Indian temple sculpture - Raising up the image - Measuring man - The maker; Opening the eyes: the consecration rituals; 3. The Temple Setting - The temple as body - Form - Function; 4. Devotion and Temple Worship - Temple worship - Devotion and Darsana (seeing God) - Temple pujas and festivals; 5. Iconography and Emotion - Expressing emotion and aesthetic delight: Rasa in Indian sculpture - reading the signs; 6. Manifestations and Appearances - Siva linga - Siva's manifestations - Vasedeva/Visnu - Dasavataras - The goddess - Nature Personified; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
John Guy is the Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He previously served for 22 years as a Senior Curator of Indian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Major publications include Arts of India: 1550-1900 (V&A 1990), Indian Art and Connoisseurship (1995, ed.), Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition (1998), Woven Cargoes: Indian Textiles in the East (1998), Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India (MMA 2012). Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 (MMA 2013), and Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia (MMA 2014).
Reviews for Indian Temple Sculpture
""Essential and beautiful...this lavishly illustrated book is a welcome and much needed addition to the subject of Indian religious Art."" -- ""Royal Academy Magazine""
