The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to Its Meaning and Forms - Softcover

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Michell, George

 
9780226532301: The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to Its Meaning and Forms
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226532305 ISBN 13: 9780226532301
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

For more than 1500 years, from the Indian subcontinent to the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, the temple has embodied and symbolized the Hindu worldview at its deepest level and inspired the greatest architectural and artistic achievements in Hindu Asia. In The Hindu Temple, considered the standard introduction to the subject, George Michell explains the cultural, religious, and architectural significance of the temple. He illustrates his points with a profusion of photographs, building plans, and drawings of architectural details, making the book a useful guide for travelers to Asia as well as an illuminating text for students of architecture, religion, and Asian civilizations.

Michell's discussion of the meaning and forms of the temple in Hindu society encompasses the awe-inspiring rock-cut temples at Ellora and Elephanta, the soaring superstructures and extraordinary sexual exhibitionism of the sculptures at Khajuraho, and the colossal mortuary temple of Angkor Vat, as well as the tiny iconic shrines that many Hindus wear around their necks and the simple shrines found under trees or near ponds.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George Michell is the author of Architecture of the Islamic World, Brick Temples of Bengal, and The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India, Volume I. A native of Australia, he earned a Ph.D. in Indian archeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226532305
ISBN 13 
9780226532301
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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