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This volume takes as its focus the process of seeing¿to look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely, from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements from walking to dreaming, from glancing to looking askance, and hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
This volume takes as its focus the process of seeing—to look closely, remaining true to the object, but also to see widely, from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements from walking to dreaming, from glancing to looking askance, and hypnotic stares, and to see beyond the visible.
