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The cultural manifestation of Hinduism is uniquely complex. In particular, the visual arts associated with the Hindu religion are recognized as being the most complex and rich of any living religion. No serious effort to understand ancient or contemporary Indian culture can be made without a clear understanding of the visual arts and their sources in religious belief and practice.
In this book, Heather Elgood provides the best synthesis and critical study of recent scholarship on the topic. She emphasizes the ritual aspect of religious art - with reference to monumental architecture, sculpture and rural arts. Throughout, strong connections are made and explained between the bewildering variety of religious belief and practice in India and the power and richness of ancient and contemporary rural Indian art.
This book will be central to the studies of anyone interested in the social and anthropological roots of artistic creativity, as well as the rites, practices and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of Hindus in the world today.
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Art and religion, Art patronage, Art, Hindu, Art, Indic, Hindu Art, Hindu symbolism, Indic Art, Symbolism in art, HinduismPlaces
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Hinduism and the religious arts
1999, Cassell, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0304338206 9780304338207
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and index.
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