Architecture and Art of Southern India

1995-08-17

Not unlike painting , later royal architecture in Southern India also exhibits considerable creativity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . The process of stylistic synthesis identified in the courtly buildings of the Rayas ...

Author: George Michell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521441102

Category: Architecture

Page: 340

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George Michell considers the artistic heritage of the architecture, sculpture and painting of the Vijayanagara empire and the successor states. The period, encompassing some four hundred years, was endowed with an abundance of religious and royal monuments, which remain as testimonies to the history and ideology behind their evolution. In a previously neglected area of art history, the author presents an original and much needed reassessment, evaluating buildings, sculptures and paintings, illustrated by many previously unpublished photographs.
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The Courts of Pre colonial South India

2003

( 1994 ) Architecture in Victorian and Edwardian India . Bombay : Marg . Ludden , David E. ( 1985 ) Peasant History in South India . Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press . Madras Exhibition of Raw Products , Arts , and ...

Author: Jennifer Howes

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 0700715851

Category: History

Page: 296

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This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set against the historical background of the events which led to the formation of the Ramnad Kingdom, the Kingdom's material circumstances are examined, beginning with the innermost region of the palace and moving out to the Kingdom via the palace compound itself and the walled town which surrounded it. An important study for both art historians and South India specialists. The volume is richly illustrated in colour.
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Architecture and Art of Southern India

2004-02

Author: George Michell

Publisher:

ISBN: 0521798434

Category: Art, Indic

Page: 302

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George Michell considers the artistic heritage of the architecture, sculpture and painting of the Vijayanagara empire and the successor states. The period, encompassing some four hundred years, was endowed with an abundance of religious and royal monuments, which remain as testimonies to the history and ideology behind their evolution. In a previously neglected area of art history, the author presents an original and much needed reassessment, evaluating buildings, sculptures and paintings, illustrated by many previously unpublished photographs.
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Southern India

2012-08-10

Michell, George, Architecture and Art of Southern India. Vijayanagara and the Successor States, Cambridge 1995. ---- ed., Temple Towns of Tamil Nadu, Mumbai 2003. ---- ed., Kanara: A Land Apart, Mumbai 2012. Michell, George and Indira ...

Author: George Michell

Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited

ISBN: 9788174369031

Category: Travel

Page: 580

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This comprehensive guide to Southern India’s varied heritage covers all the major Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and European historical monuments and sites in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The descriptions vary from forts and palaces, and temple architecture, sculpture and painting, to mosques and tombs, and churches and civic buildings. The guide is divided into travel-friendly itineraries, accompanied by useful location maps. Some of the special features of this travel guide are: (1) The most comprehensive coverage of the region's cities and monuments, museums, and archaeological sites. (2) Includes all the major sites – the great port cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi; the citadels of Golconda, Vijaynagara and Gingee; the rock-cut sanctuaries at Ajanta and Ellora; the temples at Badami, Halebid and Thanjuvar; the mosques of Hyderabad and Bijapur; and the cathedrals at Goa – and hundreds of less well-known places. (3) Detailed up-to-date practical information, with maps and archival photographs.
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The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Ramayana in South India and Southeast Asia

2021-07-01

Architecture and Art of Southern India: Vijayanagara and the Successor States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Michell, G. 2000. Hindu Art and Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson. Morley, G. 2005. Indian Sculpture.

Author: Parul Pandya Dhar

Publisher: Manipal Universal Press

ISBN: 9788195279715

Category: Reference

Page: 372

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The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia are examined at multiple levels in this volume. The research presented here offers in-depth investigations of chosen moments in the development of the epic tradition together with broader trends that help in understanding the epic’s multivalence. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. These are rewarding directions of research that have thus far received little attention. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts and with shifting norms, tastes, traditions, and ideologies.
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Muslim Architecture of South India

2013-06-17

This is not surprising, as in Islam there is no other craft above the art of illustrating and bringing to life the might of the Holy Word. Among the mosques of the coastal towns of South India,.

Author: Mehrdad Shokoohy

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136499845

Category: Architecture

Page: 352

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This book reinterprets the Muslim architecture and urban planning of South India, looking beyond the Deccan to the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala - the historic coasts of Coromandel and Malabar. For the first time a detailed survey of the Muslim monuments of the historic ports and towns demonstrates a rich and diverse architectural tradition entirely independent from the better known architecture of North India and the Deccan sultanates. The book, extensively illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings, widens the horizons of our understanding of Muslim India and will no doubt pave new paths for future studies in the field.
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Art of South India Andhra Pradesh

1980

317-22. , Architectural Survey of the Kerala Temples, New Delhi 1978. , Studies in Early Buddhist Architecture of India, Delhi, 1966. , and Misra, B.N., Nagarjunakonda, New Delhi, 1966. , and Nainar, S. P., Amaravati, New Delhi, ...

Author: B. Rajendra Prasad

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015015266870

Category: Art, Buddhist

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Illustrations of temples, sculpture and stupas of Andhra Pradesh.
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Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates

1999-06-10

Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau in peninsular India ... His publications include Architecture and Art of Southern India : Vijayanagara and the Successor States ( 1995 ) and City of ...

Author: George Michell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521563216

Category: Architecture

Page: 344

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The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau flourished from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. During this period, the Deccan sultans built palaces, mosques and tombs, and patronised artists who produced paintings and decorative objects. Many of these buildings and works of art still survive as testimony to the sophisticated techniques of their craftsmen. This volume is the first to offer an overall survey of these architectural and artistic traditions and to place them within their historical context. The links which existed between the Deccan and the Middle East, for example, are discernible in Deccani architecture and paintings, and a remarkable collection of photographs, many of which have never been published before, testify to these influences. The book will be a source of inspiration to all those interested in the rich and diverse culture of India, as well as to those concerned with the artistic heritage of the Middle East.
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Re Use The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety

2012-02-09

1995, “Temple Architecture: The Tamil Zone”. In: George Michell (ed.), The New Cambridge History of India I: 6, Architecture and Art of Southern India, Vijayanagara and the Successor States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.

Author: Julia A. B. Hegewald

Publisher: SAGE Publishing India

ISBN: 9788132116660

Category: Social Science

Page: 515

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Presented here is a novel approach to understanding the relationship between the past and the present using the unique concept of re-use, wherein elements from the past are strategically adapted into the present, and thus become part of a new modernity. The book uses this method as a heuristic tool for analysing and interpreting cultural and political changes and the transnational flow of ideas, concepts and objects. The chapters apply this concept to South Asia but the concept of re-use and the method of its application are both general and amenable to cross-cultural and comparative analysis. Re-use is a collection of well-researched and lucidly written scholarly articles that apply the concept of re-use to different aspects of cultural, political and material life-from art, architecture and jewellery to religion, statesmen and legislatures. By not treating artistic, political, religious and cultural developments as linear evolutions, this book encourages readers to understand them as a continuous modification of the past and a periodic return to earlier forms. Beautifully illustrated with exquisite images, and containing a scholarly bibliography pointing in the direction of hitherto unexplored terrain, this new text will be a source of inspiration to the specialist and a source of delight to the general reader.
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Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art 1500 Present

2016-10-04

40 Craig Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art In Its Historical Context (New York: Harry N. Abrams, ... 49 George Mi ell, Architecture and Art of Southern India: Vijayanagara and the Successor States (Cambridge: ...

Author: Deborah S. Hutton

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781315456034

Category: Art

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Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional constructions regarding place in Art History, while others explore the fundamental role that place plays in lived experience. The particular nexus for this collection lies at the intersection and overlap of two major subfields in the history of art: South Asia and the Islamic world, both of which are seemingly geographically determined, yet at the same time uncategorizable as place with their ever-shifting and contested borders. The eleven chapters brought together here move from the early modern through to the contemporary, and span particular monuments and locations ranging from Asia and Europe to Africa and the Americas. The chapters take on the question of place as it operates in more obvious settings, such as architectural monuments and exhibitionary contexts, while also probing the way place operates when objects move or when the very place they exist in transforms dramatically. This volume engages place through the movement of objects, the evocation of senses, desires, and memories and the on-going project of articulating the parameters of place and location.
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