Storied Stone: Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian Temple Hall - Softcover

Mason, Darielle

 
9780876332412: Storied Stone: Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art's South Indian Temple Hall
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0876332416 ISBN 13: 9780876332412
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2022

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A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of historical Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent. While visiting Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1913, the Philadelphian Adeline Pepper Gibson purchased more than 60 huge granite carvings. Given in 1919 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, these architectural elements were arranged to form a temple hall (mandapam) in the museum’s original building in 1920. The installation was reconfigured in 1940 in the museum’s current building and reimagined in 2016. The tale that unfolds—part detective story, part museum history, part case study—explores a century of debate about exhibition, authenticity, and interpretation within the museum, brought to life by striking new photography and never-before-published archival images. Offering fresh insights into the original context and meaning of the carvings, this volume also highlights the complexities of presenting the work in, and for, the twenty-first century.



Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Darielle Mason is the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art and head of the Department of South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0876332416
ISBN 13 
9780876332412
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234
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