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oapen-20.500.12657-864492024-01-05T16:45:54Z Animals in Stone van der Geer, Alexandra animal art deities domestication history ho2 Indian mythology ritual sacrifice sculpture theriomorphic vahana zoomorphic bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACB Art styles not defined by date::ACBP Oriental art bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK Indian sub-continent The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained extremely limited. The present book aims at filling this knowledge gap. With this richly illustrated book, the first of its kind, Van der Geer offers a comparative study of the ways in which various animals have been depicted and a lucid analysis of the sculptors’ treatment of their “models”: living animals. The art history of sculptured animals is contextualized with a description of the use of animals as can be read from ancient texts, archaeological evidence and contemporaneous culture. In doing so, parallels as well as differences in style or iconography are highlighted, elucidating the variety of animal depictions across regions, religious contexts and through time. The corpus of discussed material ranges from Indus seals, stupa panels and railings, monumental temples from North and South India, non-religious palace and fort architecture to loose sculptures in museum collections. 2024-01-05T16:29:57Z 2024-01-05T16:29:57Z 2008 book ONIX_20240105_9789047443568_18 9789047443568 9789004168190 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86449 eng application/pdf n/a 9789047443568.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/15305 Brill 10.1163/ej.9789004168190.i-462 10.1163/ej.9789004168190.i-462 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 9789047443568 9789004168190 open access
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The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained extremely limited. The present book aims at filling this knowledge gap. With this richly illustrated book, the first of its kind, Van der Geer offers a comparative study of the ways in which various animals have been depicted and a lucid analysis of the sculptors’ treatment of their “models”: living animals. The art history of sculptured animals is contextualized with a description of the use of animals as can be read from ancient texts, archaeological evidence and contemporaneous culture. In doing so, parallels as well as differences in style or iconography are highlighted, elucidating the variety of animal depictions across regions, religious contexts and through time. The corpus of discussed material ranges from Indus seals, stupa panels and railings, monumental temples from North and South India, non-religious palace and fort architecture to loose sculptures in museum collections.
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