Research Catalog

Title

Storied stone : reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian temple hall / Darielle Mason ; with contributions by Crispin Branfoot, Eleanor B.H. Coates and Susan Pepper Treadway, Anna Lise Seastrand, and Archana Venkatesan.

Author

Mason, Darielle

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven, CT : Published in association with Yale University Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Branfoot, Crispin
• Coates, Eleanor Henry
• Treadway, Susan Pepper
• Seastrand, Anna Lise, 1980-
• Venkatesan, Archana
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, issuing body.

Description

xi, 234 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 27 cm

Summary

• "This history of the South Indian temple hall in the Philadelphia Museum of Art traces how its display and interpretative framework have changed over time"--
• "Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of historical Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent. While visiting Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1913, the Philadelphian Adeline Pepper Gibson purchased more than 60 huge granite carvings. Given in 1919 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, these architectural elements were arranged to form a temple hall (mandapam) in the museum's original building in 1920. The installation was reconfigured in 1940 in the museum's current building and reimagined in 2016. The tale that unfolds-part detective story, part museum history, part case study-explores a century of debate about exhibition, authenticity, and interpretation within the museum, brought to life by archival images and striking new photography. Offering fresh insights into the original context and meaning of the carvings, this volume also highlights the complexities of presenting the work in, and for, the twenty-first century"--

Alternative Title

Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian temple hall

Subject

• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Hindu temples > India, South
• Hindu sculpture > India, South
• Mandapas > India, South
• Buildings
• Hindu sculpture
• Hindu temples
• Mandapas
• Madurai (India) > Buildings, structures, etc
• India > Madurai
• South India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Director's foreword / Timothy Rub -- Acknowledgments / Darielle Mason -- The most important gift, Adeline Pepper Gibson: her family and her travels in Madurai / Eleanor Henry Coates and Susan Pepper Treadway -- Changing visions, changing venues. The Mandapam in Nayaka South India / Crispin Branfoot -- Playing detective. The space of narrative and performance: contextualizing the temple hall / Anna Lise Seastrand -- Not written in stone. Mandapam of the heart: poetry and ritual in the Tamil temple / ArchanaVenkatesan.

Call Number

JQF 22-1404

ISBN

• 9780876332412 (canceled/invalid)
• 0876332416 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021052576

OCLC

1295103045

Author

Mason, Darielle, author.

Title

Storied stone : reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian temple hall / Darielle Mason ; with contributions by Crispin Branfoot, Eleanor B.H. Coates and Susan Pepper Treadway, Anna Lise Seastrand, and Archana Venkatesan.

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven, CT : Published in association with Yale University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Branfoot, Crispin, author.

Coates, Eleanor Henry, author.

Treadway, Susan Pepper, author.

Seastrand, Anna Lise, 1980- author.

Venkatesan, Archana, author.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1404