Research Catalog

Title

Chakshudana or opening the eyes : seeing South Asian art anew / edited by Pika Ghosh and Pushkar Sohoni.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ghosh, Pika, 1969-
• Sohoni, Pushkar
• Meister, Michael W.
• Chaksudana (Opening the eyes) (Conference) (2014 : University of Pennsylvania)

Description

xxiii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world, this practice applied to the study of art offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures, found objects, fragments, built environments, and ecologies. This volume takes as its focus the process of seeing-to look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely, from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements from walking to dreaming, from glancing to looking askance, and hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality, aesthetics and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research building on the contributions of Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology exploring artistic media including temples and paintings, as well as Bengali quilted textiles, manuscript 'lozenges,' and metal repousse. This volume, part of the Visual Media and Histories Series, will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art, religious studies, history, as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies"--

Series Statement

Visual and media histories

Uniform Title

Visual & media histories.

Alternative Title

Seeing South Asian art anew

Subject

• Art, South Asian > Congresses
• Art, South Asian

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Region, Style, Idiom and Ritual in History: Michael W. Meister on the Study of Jain Art / John Cort -- Conversation with Michael Meister / Romila Thapar -- Churning the Object: Michael W. Meister as Manthāna / Darielle Mason -- Reminiscence / Gieve Patel -- Meister Purana in Modern Indian Art / Ajay Sinha -- Squaring a Circle: Design and Construction in the Temple of Anwa / Pushkar Sohoni -- Liberating Migrations: on the Trail of Jaina Temples in Medieval Central India / Tamara I. Sears -- Paper Prāsādas / Nachiket Chanchani -- On Jaidev Baghel's Practice: Casting Aside the Art/Craft Divide / Katherine Hacker -- Chamba and the "Painterly" Vision / Mandavi Mehta -- Nonhuman Animals on Unlabeled Sculptures of the Bharhut Stupa Railing Chandreyi Basu -- Stitching Spectacles: a Visual Culture of Bodily Prowess and Muscular Nationalism in Colonial Bengal / Pika Ghosh.

Call Number

JQF 24-561

ISBN

• 9781032207834
• 1032207833
• 9781032271217
• 1032271213

LCCN

2023025439

OCLC

1392075652

Title

Chakshudana or opening the eyes : seeing South Asian art anew / edited by Pika Ghosh and Pushkar Sohoni.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Visual and media histories

Visual & media histories.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ghosh, Pika, 1969- editor.

Sohoni, Pushkar, editor.

Meister, Michael W., honouree.

Chaksudana (Opening the eyes) (Conference) (2014 : University of Pennsylvania)

Other Form:

Online version: Chakshudana or opening the eyes Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024 9781003291473 (DLC) 2023025440

Research Call Number

JQF 24-561