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Eloquent Spaces - Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,239
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Eloquent Spaces - Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (Paperback): Shonaleeka Kaul

Eloquent Spaces - Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture (Paperback)

Shonaleeka Kaul

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Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture. Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists, architects, historians and philosophers, examining different architectural sites and landscapes, including Sanchi, Moodabidri, Srinagar, Chidambaram, Patan, Konark, Basgo and Puri, demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit, beyond aesthetics to cognition, and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, both sacred and secular, which were, however, unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis. This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of architecture, ancient Indian history, philosophy, art history and cultural studies.

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Imprint: Routledge India
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Shonaleeka Kaul
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-22596-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 0-367-22596-4
Barcode: 9780367225964

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