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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes: Seeing South Asian Art Anew book cover

1st Edition

Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Edited By Pika Ghosh, Pushkar Sohoni Copyright 2024
280 Pages 31 Color & 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

280 Pages 31 Color & 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

280 Pages 31 Color & 79 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice, applied to the study of material and visual culture, offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings, sculptures, found objects, fragments, built environments,... Read more

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface by Monica Juneja

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Reading Monuments and Seeing Texts: Michael W. Meister and the Opening of Eyes

PIKA GHOSH AND PUSHKAR SOHONI

PART I   Seeing and Knowing

2 Region, Style, Idiom, and Ritual in History: Michael W. Meister on the Study of Jain Art

JOHN E. CORT

3 Conversations with Michael Meister

ROMILA THAPAR

4 Churning the Object: Michael W. Meister as Manthāna

DARIELLE MASON

5 Reminiscence

GIEVE PATEL

PART II   Style and Idiom: Classification and Complexity

6 Meister Purana in Modern Indian Art

AJAY SINHA

7 Squaring a Circle: Design and Construction in the Temple of Anwa

PUSHKAR SOHONI

PART III   Formal Metamorphoses and Mutability of Meaning

8 Liberating Migrations: On the Trail of Jaina Temples in Medieval Central India

TAMARA I. SEARS

9 Paper Prāsādas

NACHIKET CHANCHANI

PART IV   Vernacular Craft and the Rhetoric of Re- Making

10 On Jaidev Baghel’s Practice: Casting Aside the Art / Craft Divide

KATHERINE HACKER

11 Chamba and the ‘Painterly’ Vision

MANDAVI MEHTA

PART V   Image Iconopraxis and Iconoplasty

12 Nonhuman Animals on Unlabelled Sculptures of the Bharhut Stupa Railing

CHANDREYI BASU

13 Stitching Spectacles: A Visual Culture of Bodily Prowess and Muscular Nationalism in Colonial Bengal

PIKA GHOSH

Michael W. Meister’s Publications

Chakshudana (Opening the Eyes)

Index

Biography

Pika Ghosh teaches South Asian art at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA.

Pushkar Sohoni is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India.

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