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Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting

Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting

Kim, Jinah

Hardcover

BuddhismIndian & South Asian Art

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ISBN10: 0520343212
ISBN13: 9780520343214
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 16 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.10 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of seeing into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge--ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious--and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting.

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