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In the 1980s and '90s Indian sculpture was unusually productive of new ideas, new idioms, expressed in a radically wide variety of materials and mediums. The most significant trends, tendencies, and breakthroughs in the use of the sculptural medium are considered in this volume, with a sampling of the works of individual artists as representative of the complex whole. One of the unique features of the present volume is bringing together on one platform ...
Mainstream art historical writing on Indian art has remained focused on identifying and defining stylistic schools, understanding evolutionary patterns and regional styles as well as understanding iconographic and narrative conventions and structures. The wide-ranging essays in this volume challenge the boundaries and assumptions of ainstream art history. Moving away from an art history structured by an art object-centered approach, this book gestures at a ...
The worship of Saptamatrka; the seven Mother Goddesses (or the seven Saktis the divine feminine powers), is over a millennia and half old, pan-Indian phenomenon. And, over the centuries, the Matrka concept has come to have varied ideational, literary visual and ritualistic manifestations--which not just interconnect the totality of Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical religious traditions, but are integral components of the diverse historical processes of Indian ...