The Contemporary Hindu Temple
Author : Annapurna Garimella
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : 9789383243273
Author : Annapurna Garimella
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : 9789383243273
Author : John Guy
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781851779192
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. John Guy is Senior Curator of South and South-East Art in the Asian Department of the V & A.0.
Author : John Renard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520917472
Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to communicate religious values. Each of the seven chapters opens a "door" that leads progressively closer to the very heart of Islam, from the foundational revelation in the Qur'an to the transcendent experience of the Sufi mystics. However, unlike most studies of Islam, which see spirituality as the concern of a minority of mystical seekers, Seven Doors demonstrates its central role in every aspect of the Islamic tradition.
Author : Vinayak Bharne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1443867349
This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
Author : Pamela Sachant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN :
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics
Author : Michael W. Meister
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Adam Hardy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.
Author : Shakti M. Gupta
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Mary Emerson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 147257530X
Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level students and the interested general reader, this book aims to equip the student of Greek architecture for further study, and can also serve as a handbook for visitors to the sanctuaries. The book covers many of the most popular sites, including Delphi, Olympia and the Athenian Acropolis. In this second edition there are new chapters on Western Greece, covering the site of Paestum in Magna Graecia (South Italy), and the unique temple of Olympian Zeus in Acragas, Sicily. The book also offers a concise account of the evolution of Greek architecture, explores aesthetic ideas underlying Greek architectural design, and gives consideration to specific buildings in their social and religious context. This second edition has expanded the discussion of the most important temples and lays emphasis on architectural sculpture as part of the meaning of the whole building. Along with an updated bibliography and a glossary, an abundance of plans, photos and drawings helps clarify the text.
Author : Arnold W. Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Architecture
ISBN :