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Author | : Adam Hardy |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : 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 | : Vinayak Bharne |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-09-18 |
Genre | : 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 | : Michael W. Meister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stella Kramrisch |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120802247 |
Author | : Adam Hardy |
Publisher | : Abhinav Publications |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788170173120 |
Author | : Satish Grover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This book takes the reader through the centuries and gives a rich insight into India's heritage and architecture. For years the preserve of scholars, this is a presentation of the myrad forms, school and styles of architecture in an informative yet reader-friendly manner focusing on aspects of Indian aesthetics, principles of engineering, history and philosophies, replete with brilliant visuals and illuminating perspectives.
Author | : Annapurna Garimella |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Hindu temples |
ISBN | : 9789383243273 |
Author | : Swarajya Prakash Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The Work Studies Basic Principles Of Ancient Indian Art And Architecture. It Deals With Hindu Thinking And Practice Of Art Including The Hindu View Of Godhead, Iconography And Iconometry And Symbols And Symbolism In Hindu Art. It Surveys Indian Art And Temple Architecture From The Ancient Times And Makes Comparative Studies Of Religious Art In India.
Author | : George Michell |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Guy |
Publisher | : Victoria & Albert Museum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-01-10 |
Genre | : 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.