Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India - Couverture rigide

Kaligotla, Subhashini

 
9780300258943: Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300258941 ISBN 13 : 9780300258943
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers

"Subhashini Kaligotla brings a fresh and forceful voice to this specific field, and to South Asian art history more broadly."--Adam Hardy, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, Pattadakal and its neighboring sites are of major historical importance. In Shiva's Waterfront Temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates these buildings in the cosmopolitan milieu of Deccan India and considers how their makers and awestruck visitors would have seen them in their day. Kaligotla reconstructs how architects and builders approached the sites, including their use of ornamentation, responsiveness to courtly values such as pleasure and play, and ingenious juxtaposition of the first millennium's Nagara and Dravida aesthetics, a blend largely unique to Deccan plateau architecture. With over 130 color illustrations, this original book elucidates the Deccan's special place in the lexicon of medieval South Asian architecture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Subhashini Kaligotla is Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300258941
ISBN 13 
9780300258943
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
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Personne responsable
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