Research Catalog

Title

Yoga : the art of transformation / Debra Diamond [and seven others] ; with contributions by Molly Emma Aitken [and eight others].

Author

Diamond, Debra

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Aitken, Molly Emma
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
• Freer Gallery of Art
• Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
• Cleveland Museum of Art

Description

328 p. : ill. (some col.), col. msp; 32 cm.

Summary

"Yoga: The Art of Transformation, the world’s first examination of yoga’s visual history, explores the discipline’s meanings and transformations over time; its goals of spiritual enlightenment, worldly power, and health and well-being; and the beauty and profundity of Indian art. The book's illustrations include sculptural masterpieces of historical and divine yogis, exquisite Mughal paintings of militant yogis and romantic heroes, Islamic divination texts, 15-foot scrolls depicting the chakras (energy centers of the body), and 19th-century photography. Written by leading scholars from the disciplines of religion, sociology, anthropology, and art history, the book is characterized by interdisciplinary perspectives that make it an important resource for scholars; yet the text is eminently accessible to general audiences. In addition to seven major essays, the book includes 250- to 1,500-word catalog entries that illuminate the artworks’ individual qualities by situating them, for the first time, within intersecting historical, artistic, and yogic networks."--

Subject

• Exhibitions as Topic
• Yoga
• Yoga in art > Exhibitions
• Art, Indic > Themes, motives > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Catalog
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery [Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.] on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-319) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Essays. Yoga: the art of transformation / Debra Diamond -- Yoga in transformation / David Gordon White -- From guru to god: yogic prowess and places of practice in early-medieval India / Tamara I. Sears -- Muslim interpreters of yoga / Carl W. Ernst -- Yogis in Mughal India / James Mallinson -- Yoga, bodybuilding, and wrestling: metaphysical fitness / Joseph S. Alter -- Globalized modern yoga / Mark Singleton --
• Catalogue. Pt. 1. The path of yoga. Manifestations of Shiva ; Portraying the guru ; Yoginis ; Nath Siddhas ; Jain yoga: nonviolence for karmic purification ; Yoga and tapas: the Buddhists and Ajivikas ; Austerities ; Meditation ; Asana ; The cosmic body ; The subtle body ; The militant ascetic body ; Illusion and reality in the Yoga vasishta -- Pt. 2. Landscapes of yoga. Ashram and math ; Pilgrimage ; The cremation ground -- Pt. 3. Yoga in the Indian imagination, 16th-19th century. Yogis in the literary imagination ; Transcendence and desire in Ragamala paintings ; Mughal albums -- Pt. 4. Yoga in the transnational imagination, 18th-20th century. Company paintings ; Colonial photography ; The bed of nails: the exotic across borders and media ; Fakirs, fakers, and magic -- Pt. 5. Modern transformations. Vivekananda and rational spirituality ; Medical yoga ; Modern postural yoga.

ISBN

• 9780934686266 (pbk.)
• 0934686262 (pbk.)
• 9781588344595 (hbk.)
• 1588344592 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2013025537

OCLC

• 828484013
• SCSB-10743675

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library