
Discourses on Siva
Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery
Michael W. Meister(Editor)
University of Pennsylvania Press
Published on 29. September 1985
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-8122-7909-2 (ISBN)
Description
Discourses on Siva is a collection of essays on the nature of religious imagery in Indian art. Focusing on Saivite monuments, Saivite iconography, iconology, literary sources, and forms of Siva, they fulfill several intentions: to clarify the historical processes of and rationales for image formation in India; to give an overview of current methodologies for approaching art in its Indian context, particularly of the ways in which scholars have established subtle as well as obvious links between visual and written traditions; and to create a foundation for viewing religious art in India in relation to more "literary" artistic traditions elsewhere.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
33 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1547 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-7909-2 (9780812279092)
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Michael W. Meister is the W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.