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Indian temple sculpture
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- Creator
- John Guy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Revised edition
- London : V & A Publishing, 2017
- Physical Details
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- 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781851779192, 1851779191
- OCLC
- on1008895477
- Originally published by V & A Publishing, 2007. Reprinted with minor revisions, 2017.
- On title page verso: "Designed by Adam Brown."
- On title page verso: "New V & A photography by Mike Kitcatt and Phil Barnard, V & A Photographic Studio."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-183) and index.
- Religious sculpture of the Indian subcontinent. Sacred word, sacred image ; The image house ; Icons of devotion ; Myths made manifest -- The rules of design : the Śāstric tradition. Sculpture and the śāstras ; Reflected image : efficacy in Indian temple sculpture ; Raising up the image ; Measuring man ; The maker ; Opening the eyes : the consecration rituals -- The temple setting. The temple as body ; Form ; Function -- Devotion and temple worship. Temple worship ; Devotion and darśana -- seeing God ; Temple pūjās and festivals -- Iconography and emotion. Expressing emotion and aesthetic delight : rasa in Indian sculpture ; Reading the signs -- Manifestations and appearances. Śiva liṅga ; Śiva's manifestations ; Vāsudeva/Viṣṅu ; Dasavatāras ; The goddess ; Nature personified -- Glossary