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9780700710386

Paradigms of Indian Architecture: Space and Time in Representation and Design

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700710386

  • ISBN10:

    0700710388

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-10-16
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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This book explores conceptions of Indian architecture and how the historical buildings of the subcontinent have been conceived and described. Investigating the design philosophies of architects and styles of analysis by architectural historians, the book explores how systems of design and ideas about aesthetics have governed both the construction of buildings in India and their subsequent interpretation. How did the political directives of the British colonial period shape the manner in which pioneer archaeologists wrote the histories of India's buildings? How might such accounts conflict with indigenous ones, or with historical aesthetics? How might paintings of buildings by British and Indian artists suggest different ways of understanding their subjects? In what ways must we revise our conceptions of space and time to understand the narrative art which adorns India's most ancient monuments? These are among the questions addressed by the contributors to the volume.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(11)
G.H.R. Tillotson
PART ONE: REPRESENTATION
The Monument Described
Past and Present: toward an aesthetics of colonialism
12(14)
Thomas R. Metcalf
Tales of the Bharhut Stupa: archaeology in the colonial and nationalist imaginations
26(33)
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
The Depicted Place
Painting and Understanding Mughal Architecture
59(21)
G.H.R. Tillotson
India's Visual Narratives: the dominance of space over time
80(27)
Vidya Dehejia
PART TWO: DESIGN
The Built Form
Form, Transformation and Meaning in Indian Temple Architecture
107(29)
Adam Hardy
Gods, Patrons and Images: stone sculpture at Vijayanagara
136(23)
Anna L. Dallapiccola
The Inhabited Space
Spatial Organisation and Aesthetic Expression in the Traditional Architecture of Rajasthan
159(17)
Kulbhushan Jain
A Tale of Two Cities: house and town in India today
176
Sunand Prasad

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