Actions for Shiva's waterfront temples : architects and their audiences in medieval India

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Shiva's waterfront temples : architects and their audiences in medieval India / Subhashini Kaligotla

Author
Kaligotla, Subhashini, 1969-
Additional Titles
Architects and their audiences in medieval India
Published
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
x, 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 26 cm

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Contents
Toward a historical reinterpretation of Deccan heterogeneity -- Writ in stone: epigraphs and the presence of early medieval Deccan makers -- "Small models of large buildings"?: the many meanings of micro architecture -- Temples on temples: mediating power, difference, and canonical knowledge -- "Maker of many cities": fashioning and experiencing the early Deccan temple cluster -- Conclusion: the afterlives of the temple cluster.
Summary
The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, Pattadakal and its neighboring sites are of major historical importance. In Shiva's Waterfront Temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates these buildings in the cosmopolitan milieu of Deccan India and considers how their makers and awestruck visitors would have seen them in their day. Kaligotla reconstructs how architects and builders approached the sites, including their use of ornamentation, responsiveness to courtly values such as pleasure and play, and ingenious juxtaposition of the first millennium's Nagara and Dravida aesthetics, a blend largely unique to Deccan plateau architecture. With over 130 color illustrations, this original book elucidates the Deccan's special place in the lexicon of medieval South Asian architecture.
Subject(s)
ISBN
0300258941
9780300258943
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
View MARC record | catkey: 39666812