Paradigms of Indian Architecture: Space and Time in Representation and Design

by G. H. R. Tillotson

Overview

This book explores conceptions of Indian architecture and how the historical buildings of the subcontinent have been conceived and described. Investigating the design philosophies of architects and styles of analysis by architectural historians, the book explores how systems of design and ideas about aesthetics have governed both the construction of buildings in India and their subsequent interpretation.

How did the political directives of the British colonial period shape the manner in which pioneer archaeologists wrote the histories of India's buildings? How might such accounts conflict with indigenous ones, or with historical aesthetics? How might paintings of buildings by British and Indian artists suggest different ways of understanding their subjects? In what ways must we revise our conceptions of space and time to understand the narrative art which adorns India's most ancient monuments? These are among the questions addressed by the contributors to the volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700710386
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/16/1997
Series:	Collected Papers on South Asia Ser. , #13
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, G.H.R. Tillotson; Chapter 1 Past and Present: Towards an Aesthetics of Colonialism, Thomas R. Metcalf; Chapter 2 ::, Tapati Guha-Thakurta; Chapter 3 Painting and Understanding Mughal Architecture, G.H.R. Tillotson; Chapter 4 India’s Visual Narratives: The Dominance of Space Over Time, Vidya Dehejia; Chapter 5 Form, Transformation and Meaning in Indian Temple Architecture, Adam Hardy; Chapter 6 Gods, Patrons and Images: Stone Sculpture at Vijayanagara, Anna L. Dallapiccola; Chapter 7 Spatial Organisation and Aesthetic Expression in the Traditional Architecture of Rajasthan, Kulbhushan Jain; Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Cities: House and Town in India Today, Sunand Prasad;

Editorial Reviews

'This slim collection of eight conferece papers - less than 200 pages long - is one of the most thought-provoking books on Indian architecture to appear in recent years.' - Clive Dewey, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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