Art, Myths and Visual Culture of South Asia

Vol. III – Art, Myths and Visual Culture of South Asia, PIOTR BALCEROWICZ & JERZY MALINOWSKI (eds.)

Contents: – MYTH, PARABLE AND ART: BARBARA GRABOWSKA, Acts of Master Viśvakarman inBengali Poems; MONIKA ZIN,The Parable of ‘The Man in the Well’. Its Travels and its Pictorial Traditionsfrom Amaravati to Today; PIOTR BALCEROWICZ, The Body and the Cosmos in Jaina Mythology and Art; SILKE K. YASMIN FISCHER, The Spread of Buddhism from India to Sri Lanka. Its Visual Representation; – RITUAL, SEX AND POWER: ANNA ŚLĄCZKA, Temple Consecration Rituals in the Hindu Tradition of South andSouth-East Asia: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence; DAVID SMITH, Facial Expression inthe Erotic Art of Khajuraho. A Preliminary Investigation; VALDAS JASKUNAS, Building Visual Order inKashmir. Analysis of Architectural Structures as Described in the Visnu-dharmottara-purana; – CULTURAL HERITAGE: SAMIR KUMAR MUKHERJEE, Terracotta Art in the Gangetic Valley under the Guptas; M. SINGH, R.S. TRAMBAKE, D.A. GUPTA, Chemical Conservation of Hînayâna Paintings of the 2nd BCE, CaveNo. 10, Ajanta; ASOKA DE ZOYSA, Reading Images and Interpreting the Context: Differentiating Between Iconography and Iconology According to Erwin Panofsky’s Three Phase Analysis.

 

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi 2011

 

ISBN 978-81-7304-951-4 (320 p., XX color ills.)