The Thief Who Stole My Heart - The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes From Chola India, 855-1280

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, th

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Vidya Dehejia

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The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, th

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"A momentous scholarly achievement. . . . [A]n ambitious and grand reframing of the history of South Indian visual and cultural history."---Tamara I. Sears, The Journal of Asian Studies

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• Authors: Vidya Dehejia, Dehejia Vidya
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780691202594
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20259-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 290 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Asian / Indian & South Asian, sculpture, India, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Hinduism, Material Culture, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, 9th century, c 800 to c 899, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art