Himadri Temples (A.D. 700-1300)

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Till now, no consistent attempt has been made to study the stone temples of Himachal Pradesh as a unified entity. Descriptive accounts of very few temples available in the ASI reports, district gazetteers and travelogues are stray notes, unrelated to one another, nor do they present the evolution of this regional offshoot of temple architecture in a chronological sequence from A.D. 700 to 1300. Nor has any scholar recognised the Himadri style temples as an important group amongst the regional developments of Nagara temple architecture. Although each regional manifestation has its own peculiar characteristics, there is throughout the entire range of this architectural style a certain undercurrent of thought resulting in a standardisation of forms, principles, and procedure which indicates that fundamentally all these examples belong to the same wide movement. The magnificent temples and the superb sculptures embellishing them provide sufficient testimony to the fact that highly accomplished and talented sculptors and equally discerning and enlightened patrons existed in this western Himalayan region. Simultaneously they attest to a significant fact that although these temple sites appear to be cut off from the rest of the northern Indian plains by a long chain of mountain ranges, they were not all that isolated. The temple architectural features and sculptural styles belong to the mainstream of Nagara style temples and display striking homogeneity. This intensive study focuses attention on all these and many more issues. Monochrome and colour illustrations will bring home to the readers the grandeur of these silent but eloquent achievements of human hands and genius.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Subhashini Aryan

Dr. Subhashini Aryan, Chairperson, K.C. Aryan's Home of folk Art, is daughter of illustrious master modern painter, sculptor, art historian, and collector of folk and tribal art objects. A noted art historian in her own right, she collaborated with her father in writing numerous art historical books on unexplored areas such as: Hanuman in Art and Mythology, Rural Arts of The Western Himalayas, The Aryans (1998), besides authoring over a dozen scholarly books independently. She is an academic, a regular contributor of specialist research papers to prestigious art journals (national and international), has represented India at International conferences on art history abroad, and showcases Indian art and culture through her illuminating lectures abroad as well as within the country. She is an authority on Western Himalayan art and architecture.

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Title
Himadri Temples (A.D. 700-1300)
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8185922183
Length
xiv+129p., Plates; Figures; Glossary; Bibliography; 25cm.
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