Akriti to Sanskriti: The Journey of Indian Forms

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Item Code: NAJ924
Author: Harsha V. Dehejia
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Language: English
Edition: 2010
ISBN: 9788189738532
Pages: 248 (Throughout Color Illustrations)
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 11.5 inch x 8.5 inch
Weight 1.30 kg
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Book Description

About the Book

 

India is a civilization of many images, a culture of many visual feasts, a tradition where the visible and the palpable arc as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied not only in our erudite texts but in our kathas (stories) and gathas (songs), akritis (visual forms) and rachanas (compositions), rich with a variety of forms, shapes, designs and motifs.

 

Akriti to Sankriti: The Journey of Indian Forms explores some akritis that adorn both majestic and grand monuments, as well as common and ordinary spaces, and which through their purely visual language are pointers to not only our culture, but equally to brahma jnana or transcendental knowledge.

 

These beautiful visual representations of both the ordinary people and artisans, are not individual expressions but that of the shared experiences of the community and the preserve of the family, passed down through endless generations. They are neither mere designs nor decorations, nor meant only for rites and rituals, but in their own unpretentious way become sources of visual knowledge and have a culture of their own.

 

Akriti to Sanskriti, a unique analysis and repository of Indian visual forms, is a collector's tome.

 

About the Author

 

Harsha V. Dehejia has a double doctorate -one in medicine and the other in Ancient Indian Culture, both from Mumbai University. He is a practising physician, and Professor of Indian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His main interest is in Indian Aesthetics. A widely respected aesthete and art collector, he has written extensively on Indian art and culture, including Parvati. Goddess of Love (1999): Despair and Modernity: Reflections on Modem Indian Paintings (2000): A Celebration of" Lore: The Romantic Heroine in the Indian Arts (2004): Celebrating Krishna: Sensuous Images and Sacred Word,' (2005): God,' Beyond Temples (2006) and A Festival of Krishna (2008).

 

Contents

 

1.

Akriti to Sanskriti

9

2.

Adorning the Earth

49

3.

The Aesthetics of Boundaries

63

4.

Messengers of the Sky

85

5.

From the Earth to the Sky

101

6.

The Plenitude of Life

121

7.

In the Image of Man: Purusha to Manushya

137

8.

Kalasha: The Womb of the Universe

161

9.

The Aesthetics of Space

173

10.

From Surabhi to Airavat

189

11.

Images of Totality

205

12.

Farewell

225

Glossary

231

Image Credits

239

Index

240

 

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