Author |
Alone, Y S |
Year |
2019 |
Binding |
Hardback |
Pages |
xliii+476p, (95) figs, (330)b/w pls, bib, ind, 29 cm. |
ISBN10, ISBN13 |
8174791825, 9788174791825 |
List Price: | US $79.95 | Your Price | US $59.96 | You Save | 25.00% |
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Untitled Document
About the Book:
The study of western Indian Buddhist caves has always been
concerned with the chronology of the caves based on the political chronology
of ruling dynasties. The present work is an attempt to a broader concern with
the visuality and its pattern of architectural and decorative designs such as
how a particular pattern of articulation was evolved? How did the artisans work
in the society with the available tradition/skill and what was the role and
politics of patronage? How the early Mahayana developments can be traced within
the region itself?
It also presents a critic of consciousness of interpreters as reflected through
their subjective positions. It’s an endeavor to question many normative
interpretations that have been produced in recent past. It moves away from the
concept of homogeneity of tradition and attempts to understand difference in
tradition and theoretical formulations. The book is also an attempt to see Ajanta
and western Deccan caves very differently from the conventional perspectives.
Contents:
Preface
List of Figures
List of Plates
Transliteration Keys
Introduction
The Background Conditions * Patronage * Art and Architecture: Early Caves *
Art and Architecture: Locating Early Mahayana Caves and Ajanta * Epilogue
Appendices
Appendix-I: Walter Spink and Ajanta’s Chronology
Appendix-II: Notes on Measurements of the Caves
Select Bibliography
Index
Plates
About the Author:
Dr. Y. S. Alone is a Professor in Visual Studies in School
of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Previously he
worked at Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute
(deemed university) Pune and at the Department of Fine Arts,Kurukshetra University,
Kurukshetra. He has published several research papers in journals and chapters
in edited volumes on Ancient Indian Art and critic of Walter Spink, Buddhist
caves in western India, critic of modern Indian art, popular neo-Buddhist visual
culture, interpretative frame-work of Dr. Ambedkar and social sciences. He has
lectured widely in India and abroad mainly in China at Shenzhen University,
Dunhaung Research Academy, Buddhist Research Institute Hangzhou. He was nominated
as ICCR chair visiting Professor in Shenzhen University PR China. He has been
member of various Government Committees and has been advisor of NCERT textbook
on History of Art for class XI.
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