Buddhist Architecture
Buddhist Architecture

Author: Huu Phuoc Le

Publisher: Grafikol

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0984404309

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"The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principal types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third century BCE-twelfth century CE with an emphasis on India. It aims to construct shared architectural traits and patterns alongwith the derivative relationships between Indian and Asian Buddhist monuments. It also discusses the historical antecedents in the Indus Civilization and the religious and philosophical foundations of the three schools of Buddhism and its founder, Buddha. Previously obscure topics such as Aniconic and Vajrayana (Tantric) architecture and the four holiest sites of Buddhism will also be covered in this comprehensive volume. The author further investigates the influences of Buddhist architecture upon Islamic, Christian, and Hindu architecture that have been overlooked by past scholars."

Sacred Visions
Sacred Visions

Author: Steven Kossak

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0870998625

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Accompanying an exhibition to be held in New York during late fall of 1998, Sacred Visions is a superbly illustrated volume of art works from the 11th to the mid-15th centuries which includes scholarly essays that relate to the paintings to be displayed.

Art and Archaeology of Eastern India
Art and Archaeology of Eastern India

Author: Naseem Akhtar

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Contributed papers presented at National Seminar on "the Art and Archaeology of Eastern India", held at Patna Museum from 8-10 March 1997.

The Heritage of Indian Art A Pictorial Presentation
The Heritage of Indian Art A Pictorial Presentation

Author: Vasudeva S. Agrawala

Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

Published:

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 8123022905

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This book is an understanding of the heritage of Indian art and architecture through centuries till date giving details of the relevance and significane of every art sculpture

Garland of Visions
Garland of Visions

Author: Jinah Kim

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0520343212

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Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge—ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious—and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting.

The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture
The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture

Author: Leslie Rainer

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0892368500

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For millennia, people of all cultures have decorated the surfaces of their domestic, religious, and public buildings. Earthen architecture in particular has been, and continues to be, a common ground for surface decoration such as paintings, sculpted bas-relief, and ornamental plasterwork. This volume explores the complex issues associated with preserving these surfaces. Case studies from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas are presented. The publication is the result of a colloquium held in 2004 at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the National Park Service (NPS). The meeting brought together fifty-five conservators, cultural resource managers, materials scientists, engineers, architects, archaeologists, anthropologists, and artists from eleven countries. Divided into four themes--Archaeological Sites, Museum Practice, Historic Buildings, and Living Traditions--the papers examine the conservation of decorated surfaces on earthen architecture within these different contexts.