THE TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA (SIGNED & INSCRIBED)

HARDY, Adam

ISBN 10: 0470028270 / ISBN 13: 9780470028278

Edité par John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2007

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4to. pp 256. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's brown buckram lettered in white at spine. Illustrated throughout in colour. Inscribed by the author at the front free endpaper; "To Diana, with all best wishes, Adam Hardy, Feb. 08."ISBN: 9780470028278 Fine. In very good dust jacket, with some subtle signs of use.

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• Titre: THE TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA (SIGNED & INSCRIBED)
• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons, Chichester
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0470028270
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780470028278
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

Indian temples represent one of the great architectural traditions of the world. Built for Hindu, Buddhist and Jain worship, they are without parallel in the way that they combine direct sensuous appeal with a highly complex formal structure. This volume explains the principles and processes underlying the designs of these monuments, providing essential historical background and placing the architecture in its cultural and religious context. It traces the origins and formation of the two classical architectural 'languages' of India - the northern Nagara and southern Dravida - and their extraordinarily varied development during the great age of temple construction between the 6th and 13th centuries. The book surveys the continuing vitality of these systems up to the present, and explores the lessons that can be learned from them by architects and artists today. By giving a coherent explanation of how to look at this architecture, as a whole and in detail, the book is able to convey a lucid and comprehensive understanding of the design concepts followed by the temple architects, and of the development of temple forms. The starting point of the analysis is the realisation that the principal elements of temple designs are themselves images of temples. Once this is recognised, the complex architectural compositions become clear. It can then be seen that a perennial concern of this architecture is the expression of movement. Recurrent perceptions of the cosmos and the divine in Indian religion and philosophy are shown to have close parallels in patterns of emanation and centrifugal growth embodied in architectural form. The book is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs and analytical drawings, which are integral to the ideas and arguments put forward in the text.

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Adam Hardy has been exploring the architecture of Indian temples for 25 years; it is the subject of his doctoral thesis and many of his subsequent publications. Since studying architecture at Cambridge, he has practised as an architect and acted as consultant on the design of several Hindu temples in the UK. He was Professor of South Asian Art and Architecture at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he founded the research group PRASADA (Practice, Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture). The group is now based at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, where he is Reader. Hardy has been Editor of the journal South Asian Studies since 1999. He is currently leading a large research project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, focusing on the 11th-century temple at Bhojpur.