Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across
multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors and priests.
The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world, this practice
applied to the study of art offers a distinctive perspective to
interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures,
found objects, fragments, built environments, and ecologies. This
volume takes as its focus the process of seeing—to look closely,
remaining true to the object, but also to see widely, from multiple
subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements from walking to
dreaming, from glancing to looking askance, and hypnotic stares,
and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through
nuanced considerations of materiality, aesthetics and regional
specificities. The essays emerge from current research building on
the contributions of Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown
Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at
the University of Pennsylvania, whose works laid the foundations
for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The
essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather
than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology
exploring artistic media including temples and paintings, as well
as Bengali quilted textiles, manuscript ‘lozenges,’ and metal
repousse. This volume, part of the Visual Media and Histories
Series, will be of interest to students and researchers of history
of art, religious studies, history, as well as the allied
disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Visual and Media Histories |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Editors: |
Pika Ghosh
• Pushkar Sohoni
|
Dimensions: |
246 x 189mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
220 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-220783-4 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-220783-3 |
Barcode: |
9781032207834 |
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