Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture by Shonaleek

Description: Eloquent Spaces by Shonaleeka Kaul Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, which were unified in their insistence on enacting a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture.Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists, architects, historians and philosophers, examining different architectural sites and landscapes, including Sanchi, Moodabidri, Srinagar, Chidambaram, Patan, Konark, Basgo and Puri, demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit, beyond aesthetics to cognition, and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, both sacred and secular, which were, however, unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis.This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of architecture, ancient Indian history, philosophy, art history and cultural studies. Author Biography Shonaleeka Kaul is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous works include The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (2018), Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader (2014) and Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (2010). Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Towards a Semantics of Architecture Shonaleeka Kaul 2. Form, Space and Consciousness: Architectural Principles in the Vastushastras Bettina Sharada Bäumer 3. Breathing Life into Monuments of Death: The Stupa and the Buddha Body in Sanchis Socio-Ecological Landscape Julia Shaw 4. Spatial and Architectural Constructs of Tantric Buddhist Mandalas: A Cognitive Approach Pranshu Samdarshi 5. The Old Temple of Basgo, Ladakh: A hypothesis on the superimposition of the celestial assembly on sculpture and Sangha Gerald Kuzicz 6. Temple and Territory in the Puri Jagannatha Imaginaire Manu V. Devadevan 7. Stepwells of Western India: Ranki Vav at Patan Rabindra Vasavada 8. Outer Places, Inner Spaces: Constructing the Gaze in Chola Chidambaram Aleksandra Wenta 9. Interpreting Public Space in the Jaina Basadis of Moodabidri Pratyush Shankar 10. On the Waters Edge: Tracing Urban Form in Old Srinagar M.N. Ashish Ganju Details ISBN0367225964 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 0367225964 ISBN-13 9780367225964 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge India Subtitle Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Shonaleeka Kaul DEWEY 720.954 Illustrations 27 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white; 61 Illustrations, black and white Affiliation Associate Professor of Ancient Indian History in the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU Pages 200 Publication Date 2019-05-07 Short Title Eloquent Spaces Language English UK Release Date 2019-05-07 AU Release Date 2019-05-07 NZ Release Date 2019-05-07 Author Shonaleeka Kaul Alternative 9780367375010 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134406277;

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