Main entry:

Sinha, Ajay J., 1956-

Title & Author:

Imagining architects : creativity in the religious monuments of India / Ajay J. Sinha.

Publication:

Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press, ©2000.

Description:

212 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-209) and index.
1. An Architecture Mule -- 2. Regional Theory in the Definition of Hybrid -- 3. Drifts in Southern Architecture -- 4. The Vesara Moment -- 5. Individuality and Agency in Vesara Architecture -- 6. The Geography of Vesara Architecture: Karnataka in A.D. 1100 -- 7. So What? The Expressive Content of Vesara -- 8. Conclusion: Makers and Making of India Temple Architecture.

Summary:

"Imagining Architects explores the nature of visual inventions in the religious architecture of India using an analytical framework that gives makers of religious monuments a visibility commonly denied to them in the historiography of Indian art and architecture. The exploration is based on a series of unusual formal experiments documented in a group of stone temples built in the eleventh century in the Karnataka region of southern India. The author shows (in these experiments) a deliberate search for a new architectural principle, using textual evidence and inscriptions referring to architects.
The author also demonstrates a self-conscious modernity of Karnataka's makers, who negotiated architectural traditions and religious ideas to radically change a previous architectural norm dominating the region."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0874136849 (alk. paper)
9780874136845 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Vesara style (Architecture)
Hindu architecture India Karnataka.
Temples India Karnataka.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Vesara (Architecture)
Architecture hindoue Inde Karnātaka.
Temples Inde Karnātaka.
Création littéraire.
Vesara.
Hindu architecture.
Temples.
Vesara-Stil
Architektur
Tempel.
India Karnataka.
Karnataka.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212544
Call No.: NA6007.K27 S5 2000
Status: Available